Word: distraughtly
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...blushed and gazed with ardor at her proud fiance. She had little to say for herself, nothing much at all in the way of experience, accomplishment or taste. But the press spotted its new idol. Diana quickly became an international obsession. Before the girl reached the altar, her distraught mother had written the Times of London to complain with poignant naivete that fictitious incidents were actually being concocted and quotes made...
...quarreled incessantly over ideological issues. Early on, his father abandoned the family, went back to Montenegro and later committed suicide. An uncle, a general in the army, died by his own hand as well. When Slobodan's mother killed herself in 1974, she reportedly left her devoted son distraught...
...distraught," Minkus says. "To go to nationals was a dream...
Ferragamo's life story too has a once-upon-a-time quality. He was born in a remote hill town outside Naples, the son of an impoverished farmer. In his autobiography he recounts that when he was nine, his parents were distraught because they could not afford a pair of traditional white Communion slippers for his six-year-old sister. The afternoon before the event, Ferragamo borrowed tools from a friendly local cobbler and stayed up all night making a pair of perfect white canvas shoes for his sister...
...Elizabeth Price), who attempts to seduce him in the stable where they both work. But, instead of her face, he sees Equus', instead of her skin he feels Equus'. All around the pitch black barn, he can see only Equus, whose anger at Alan's infidelity torments the already distraught boy. "Equus sees, God sees'" he screams, before in a fit of fury, he blinds all five horses with a metal spike. "No more Equus, no more," he screams, above the terrified, blinded horses. This is the revelation that Alan finally makes to Dysart...