Word: anguishingly
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...admission, Noah (individual names have been changed to protect student identities), a shy, boyishly attractive first-year, has been "in love" with a girl in his dorm since the fall. As of yet, he hasn't breathed a word about it to her--causing him much anguish. As he explained, "Whether I do or do not eventually make my move with her, I must consider whether I may be losing out on some golden opportunities to be with her. No doubt other guys will step up in the interim as long as I remain unswervingly self-restrained...
...skill at making the implausible seem inevitable--Maggs comes to the attention of one of his master's dinner guests, the rising young author Tobias Oates. When Maggs, serving the wine, collapses from the pain of a tic douloureux in his cheek, Oates volunteers to relieve the servant's anguish by mesmerizing, i.e., hypnotizing, him. Maggs, a man desperate to keep secrets, is at the mercy of Oates, a man avid to exploit them...
...plows through the press mob or watches as the lawn of her suburban bungalow is chewed up by a stakeout, the anguish visible on her face comes from her knowledge of Bill Clinton, the man up close, not the President we write about from afar. No doubt she's been a victim of his carelessness, as so many have, but she has also been the recipient of a hundred kindnesses. When her brother and sister died suddenly and young in the space of six months, Clinton dropped everything to go to both funerals...
...Saturday at a frenetic news conference outside her New York City apartment, Goldberg added, "If somebody takes a hit at Linda Tripp, they will hear from me." She also expressed sympathy for Lewinsky, but her words struck many listeners as insincere, since the tapings have caused Lewinsky so much anguish...
...misery loved the company. The years of anguish produced rich rewards made possible by some neck-snapping breakthroughs. The key to the success dated back to an insight Moore had in 1965. Sitting down with a piece of log paper and a ruler, he drew a simple graph. On the vertical axis he tracked the growing complexity of silicon chips, along the bottom he ticked off time, and then he plotted the points out a few years. The resulting line, he saw, showed that chip power doubled roughly every 24 months, even as costs fell by half. The rule (amended...