Word: pang
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Once again December 7 fell upon a quiet Sabbath. Sitting amid the strewn wreckage of the Sunday newspapers, many a man & woman remembered with a sudden pang how the news had tornadoed in from Pearl Harbor on an identical afternoon in 1941. On Dec. 7, 1947, millions of Americans still remembered the sense of shock, the surge of challenge...
...read these hasty sentences without a pang, a momentary searching of his own heart. . . . Lieutenant Toland left more than a $3,000 estate. He left his conscience, to a republic which needs...
...pictures of the exhibition reflected Occidental draftsmanship. Alert for the Emergency, by Chang Ting-pang, twelve, was a traditionally Chinese water color of wild geese at the edge of a pond, executed with a few nervous brush strokes. Going to Battle was also pure Chinese pen-and-brush work, sketching a peasant figure whose only modern accouterment was the rifle on his shoulder...
Result: in most cases appetites were so dulled that the patients returned to the prescribed diet without a pang. After a few months they learned to get along without the drug. To find out whether the drug had any bad effects, two of the doctors dosed themselves with it for 48 hours, during which they went without food, drink or sleep: the experience, they reported, was "exhilarating." But the doctors warned that the drug may be harmful to some people or in excessive doses, should not be taken except on prescription...
...drinks water copiously to alibi those constant work-stoppages that most writers find so necessary when facing a piece of blank paper. At such times Edmonds' three-year-old daughter often stands outside his forbidden door and sighs: "My daddy is working in there." With a pang of conscience he takes his feet off the desk, begins hammering his typewriter like Young Ames on the make...