Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they lived for nearly a quarter of a century, patching a life of torment into a counterfeit of happiness. Then, after World War II, the film version of Devil in the Flesh appeared, and all the old wounds were ripped open once again. Five years later, in 1952, Alice died. "Everything they wrote about us was untrue," she whispered to her husband as death approached. "I did nothing wrong." Already old in his late 50s, his spirit corroded by doubt, his neglected son a crippled invalid in the care of strangers, Gaston gazed at his dying wife...
...seen nothin' yet unless you step in and straighten out the mess. You've got coming up a rambunctious Democratic Congress, and those guys are preparing to paw over that contract from hell to breakfast, make every political advantage of it and torment your next two years in the White House. Although many of the things [the Democrats] said about Dixon-Yates were untrue, enough was true to give the deal an unpleasant odor the public does not like-and an odor that ought not to be associated with your administration. You were absolutely sound on your approach...
...Under such conditions one might expect the scientist to be the most secure man in our society. He holds almost ultimate power-the power of life or death. But many an American scientist is ... in moral torment. He has watched his science move from theory to human holocaust...
...worst time of all came when Runyon worked on one of his gay little stories. He was an agony writer, suffering torment over every painfully minted wisecrack. The household suffered with him, paralyzed into a dread silence...
...Sexes & the Plants. Emily's every etter was an outpouring of her heart. At first, most of her problems were the typical but painful ones that torment the growing girl. Why, she asked his Rev tearfully, was she so nervous, so tongue-tied, so resentful? Why could she "hold a baby in any position . . . without letting it fall, and yet, if I take up a . . . glass, it is ure to drop from my hands and break?" "There is no mystery in the matter," answered he cheerfully: "You are attentive to the baby and not to the glass.") How could...