Word: pang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last night of the Christmas recess on your way back from Atlanta--Oak Park-Kalamazoo-Denver. You are in your room and you are unpacking your bags. You see a book entitled "Integral Functions of the Complex Variable"--or, "The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth Century Poetry". A pang of scholastic remorse seizes you. Will you begin here and now to study it? Not if the Vagabond's well-considered plans are given a chance to help...
...going by mail. His letters were intimate but literary, extremely publishable. They are not love-letters so much as polished exhortations; his emotions lie neatly pressed between these pages. Not Harriet's image but a night sky of frosty stars made him feel "again the sudden impalpable sweet pang, like a harp-string softly struck in the core of my being...
...death of Sandino, hero and symbol of Latin-Americans' resentment against what they call "The Colossus of the North," sent a pang of sorrow and dismay from the Rio Grande to the Horn. Named for a Caesar by his well-to-do coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution...
...pang his promotion causes him. He must move from the commodious home at the Naval Hospital where he lives with his wife and daughter Ernestine, 21. Last week they were hunting for a comfortable residence close to Washington. When they find it, they will move in a lot of antique Polish furniture which the Surgeon General picked up while on a Naval mission to Brazil...
...which he had in mind, he requested the loan of a few pictures to be added to the large unofficial store already on hand. But the War Department was adamant. Gold Star mothers had been shown tidy graveyards in Flanders; they must never be made to suffer the awful pang of realization that war was not the glorious sacrifice it had been represented to them. "Such a policy would not be ethical; it would not be decent...