Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That would be yet another torment for the inmates, some of whom have been in their strange purgatory for as long as 18 months. They are confined 22 hours a day in 6-ft. by 9-ft. cells, emerging only to eat and spend 60 minutes in the recreation pen. They are allowed one hour-long visit each week by a relative; visits by friends must be approved by prison authorities...
...transition from free speech to enforced silence is no doubt painful. What torment it is for a living society, used to thinking, to lose, as from some day determined by decree, the right to express itself in print and in public, year in and year out to bite back its words in friendly conversation and even under the family roof...
...Pittsburgh, the Central Division favorites, have been just as stubborn on defense, but the Steelers' offense has sagged, and they now find themselves in a tight battle with the Cincinnati Bengals. Though all but out of the running, the nettlesome Houston Oilers and Cleveland Browns both promise to torment the leaders in future weeks...
...Alan is inane TV commercial jingles. But as the interrogation proceeds and Alan relives key aspects of his life, Dysart realizes that the boy has not only a passion for horses but also a consuming belief that they are gods. Thus to relieve the boy of his guilty torment will simultaneously rob him of his deity. What price normality? At the end of Act 1, Alan is riding his favorite steed, Nugget (Everett McGill), in an orgiastic frenzy that could be defined as a sexual climax or as "union with God," depending on the way one chooses to look...
...complacent and inadequate as his final official address to the people who had called him their President for 5½ years. His extemporaneous farewell to the members of his own Administration Friday morning, however, was merely awkward and embarrassing, a stream-of-consciousness outpouring of self-pity and self-torment (for excerpts from this extraordinary talk, see box page 68). Gone was the dry-eyed restraint night in its place was a tearful emotionalism...