Word: pang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...died of alcohol abuse. Adam was institutionalized and diagnosed as retarded before he turned three. At five, he still wore diapers, could not count consecutively or even identify colors. "Adam's birthdays are reminders for me," writes Dorris. "For each celebration commemorating that he was born, there is the pang, the rage, that he was not born whole...
...TENTH MAN (CBS) A rich lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis in Paris bargains to save his life and later faces the consequences. Anthony Hopkins made the viewer feel every moral pang in Graham Greene's engrossing story...
Four city psychiatrists testified that Brown was crazy. Three psychiatrists, hired by Brown's attorneys, found her sane, albeit eccentric. Throwing up his hands at the experts, Judge Lippmann quoted the Roman poet Juvenal: "Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous." He found Brown to be "educated, intelligent." In court "she displayed a sense of humor, pride, a fierce independence of spirit." Neither suicidal nor malnourished, Brown can meet her own essential needs. Street life may be an "offense to aesthetic senses," the judge declared, but "freedom, constitutionally guaranteed, is the right...
...deftly dodged her murderous lunge, she plunged head-first hundreds of feet down into the cavernous pit that residents once knew as the Quad Courtyard. And as she fell, arms flailing madly by her sides, I couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow--after all, it would be many weeks before the construction men would return from their coffee break and find...
...vexing dilemma of the Yat-Pang case is not in dispute. Young Asian Americans tend to target the best schools, which have limited places even for students submitting top marks. While choosing this fall's freshman class, for example, Berkeley turned away 2,200 students from all backgrounds who had perfect grades...