Word: hellishness
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Funds at both federal and state levels have been declining for work in the child-abuse field even as the affliction appears to be getting worse. Private contributions have not closed the gap. Beyond the immediate practical needs to protect young victims and give them counseling and therapy after hellish experiences, research into longer-term solutions is suffering. "You cannot wait to help a child in trouble," warns Roy T. Bowles, a lecturer in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "We must not allow the complexity of this problem to paralyze...
...move. Despite truthful seventh-grade "What I Did This Summer" papers--in which he describes Iying motionless in festering ragpiles--on one attempts to direct his aimless stumbling until his freshman year in college. It is then that the audience sees for the first time the product of this hellish existence, as he converses confidentially with the piped-in voice of a psychiatrist, and revisits and rejects his home. Although obviously still confused, he marries and starts his own family. The final image of the play is one of his bending close to his wife and first child, a reformed...
...Yanks think life back home is pretty tough. In Thorn Birds the characters bellyache about the flies and heat all the time and talk about "being stuck out here in this hellish place" beyond the black stump. Actually, they never leave Northern California, except to go to Hawaii, which is the network's idea of Queensland. You don't see many gum trees either, and Qantas didn't lend the filmmakers its koala, but they did borrow a kangaroo, and now and again the director, Daryl Duke, shoos it across the set for local color. It died...
...that fog that surrounded O'Neill. Though, as Berlin himself admits, his subject "wrote with a burning intensity that eludes description or analysis," that broadened picture makes the book worthwhile. O'Neill gazed into places where others were forbidden to look, but at least the reader can hear the hellish reports...
...Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) remains in power, in direct violation of international law. Ms. Schwartz, 9500 safe miles from Windhoek, can only lament the "death of dreams," but the people of Namibia are living in a situation that can only be described as an all too real, all too hellish nightmare. According to a briefing paper put out by the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. "The infant mortality rate for Whites was 21.6 per 1000, 145 per 1000 for Coloreds and 163 for Africans...