Word: anguishingly
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...settlement provides for a $33-a-week wage increase over a 341-month contract. The unions that held out won a slightly better pact than the Teamsters, who had settled for $30 a week last March. But the extra pay hardly seemed worth the idle hours and the anguish caused by the protracted strike. If the shutdown proved anything, beyond hu man obstinacy, it was that a modern U.S. city can ill afford the loss of its daily newspapers...
...power, lyricism and ecstatic anguish, soul is a chunky, 5-ft. 5-in. girl of 26 named Aretha Franklin singing from the stage of a packed Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan. She leans her head back, forehead gleaming with perspiration, features twisted by her intensity, and her voice?plangent and supple?pierces the hall...
...church and I were one. Their pain and their joy were mine, and mine were theirs . . . and their cries of "Amen!" and "Hallelujah!" and "Yes, Lord!," "Praise His name!," "Preach it, brother!" sustained and whipped on my solos until we all became equal, wringing wet singing and dancing, in anguish and rejoicing, at the foot of the altar...
...feast of literacy. At his best, John Osborne can make words spit, sing, keen and dance. In this film, he has something to say and knows how to say it. Nicol Williamson does the rest with abrasive splendor; one crease in his troubled brow is an abyss of anguish...
...book poignantly captures the disjointed lives of the volatile black youths -their periodic fits of rage, their more normal sullenness, their fierce loyalty to one another. Just as absorbing is the anguish and frustration of their parents, their fury at the police and the courts, tempered by the knowledge that they could not do much about it. Above all, one could scarcely find, in journalism or in fiction, a more revealing portrait of a certain type of policeman. David Senak, 24, known as "Snake," served for a year and a half on the vice squad, and he apparently enjoyed...