Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Woolf was a bit put off by the prospect of bedtime congress, Leo Tolstoy was positively appalled. "Man can endure earthquake, epidemic, dreadful disease, every form of spiritual torment," he said. "But the most dreadful tragedy that can befall him is and will remain the tragedy of the bedroom." Tolstoy went so far as to write a book advocating celibacy, The Kreutzer Sonata, but his wife had what she angrily called "the real postscript." Not long after publication, she became pregnant...
...grapes, at work in modern factories, riding horses, playing soccer. A crescendo: French-made washing machines, Renault cars, film stars and ballet scenes spell out progress and the good life. Then comes the man who claims responsibility for this idyllic island of well-being in a time of global torment: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 55, pictured at his desk in the Elysée Palace, meeting foreign leaders, affably mixing with ordinary citizens. "France has found its face," concludes the narration. "With this face it is at peace with itself," The audience cheers. The lights...
...torment of El Salvador's civil strife knows no interval. Fighting between government forces and leftist insurgents continued unabated last week, and so did political killings. In a single day, 37 people were assassinated by the country's security forces. In Soyapango, a slum section of San Salvador, police dragged 23 people from their homes and shot them dead in the street; seven others refused to come out and were killed indoors...
Throughout their journey Eva has felt the pain of her Nazi torment, and she repeatedly asks David to take her to the safety of her own home. When Eva discovers David has sold the house without asking her permission, the two have a bitter argument. But, as is usual in love stories, the tension eases and the two become reconciled eventually...
...mass press conference, 41 ex-hostages spoke guardedly about their captivity. But in interviews later in the week, several of them supplied new details of the psychological torment and physical mistreatment they had suffered. They confirmed rumors that one and possibly two unidentified hostages had attempted suicide early in their confinement. The ex-captives disclosed that, toward the end of their imprisonment, half a dozen hostages were desperate enough to begin planning a mass escape attempt, even though they knew that they had very little chance of getting out of Iran alive...