Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hickey comes bearing a new gospel--"beat the game of life" by trying to attain the consoling dream. Failure is sure, but the dream will lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...
...justly claim that no man was ever under heavier or more cruel stress and survived it in good mental and physical health is Herbert Hoover, 84. One of only five U.S. Presidents to have reached fourscore, and the first in 100 years,*Hoover endured not only the emotional torment of a presidency that spanned most of the Depression, but two decades of obloquy in which his name was equated with economic disaster and social injustice. A poor boy who, like Stagg, got his early exercise involuntarily, and a self-made millionaire like Sloan and Kettering, Herbert Hoover has long since...
After jumping over the wall in the narrowest of escapes, Tanguy and his odyssey of torment moved from darkness into light. He was enrolled in a Jesuit school for the children of Andalusian peasants...
...every man has his breaking point. "You're going to talk! Everybody talks here!" they told him. With obscene thoroughness, they used not only electric shocks but the torturer's ancient weapons of fire and water, fists and boots, terror and thirst. As the first day of torment faded into night, Alleg crawled onto the mattress on the stone floor of his cell, only to find that it was filled with barbed wire...
...Josephine's château at Malmaison, Napoleon (a very bad shot) delighted in shooting at the Empress' swans to torment her. When in good spirits, he would slap Josephine on the shoulders while she begged, "Do stop it, do stop it, Bonaparte." Josephine's maid, Mlle. Avrillon, recalled, "We could estimate the degree of his good humor by how much he hurt us. One day when he was obviously better pleased than usual, he pinched my cheek so hard I could not repress a scream...