Word: anguishingly
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When Captain Joseph Hazelwood heads for the mailbox these days, he no longer waves to his neighbors in Huntington Bay, N.Y. Instead, his head sagging, he hurries back indoors to the lonely anguish that has engulfed his life since the early morning of March 24, when his tanker, the Exxon Valdez, struck a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and leaked 11 million gal. of crude oil into the pristine waters...
...arrived only a day earlier after his triumphant NATO meeting, a sorrowful President Bush said, "I deeply deplore the decision to use force against peaceful demonstrators and the subsequent loss of life." A White House official told TIME that Bush, a former Ambassador to China, felt "personal anguish and even anger." Secretary of State James Baker called the affair "ugly and chaotic," and his department sent a message to China's leaders urging them to "return to restraint...
Hamilton epitomized the Democratic anguish. He starred with his morality lectures during the Iran-contra hearings and has continued to be a scold about virtue in public life. He has been oddly silent on Wright, his own leader, while admitting the questions he gets back home in his district are becoming more unsettling and more numerous. "Letting the process run," as he puts it to his constituents, obviously has its limits. We may be close this week...
...over the career path not chosen, the debt too steep, the woman so close but just beyond their reach. For many, though, a dream of athletic stardom is the one that got away. So they stick with baseball, living and dying with their team, analyzing stats with the rapt anguish of a rabbinical student cramming for a final. To their favorite players they are both sons and fathers -- part hero worshipers, part child psychologists. They become a collective, possessive lover of their idols. Baseball fever: boys catch it, men can't shake...
...divisions of that time, the debates and the collective anguish of students and police locked in combat over a Harvard building are still here. It is only that we see the results every day without remembering what it was that happened...