Word: tormenting
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...paralyzed and mute after a 2000 auto accident, the mentally sound Vincent used movement in his thumb to communicate his physical and emotional agony over his "locked-in" condition. In a November letter to President Jacques Chirac, he asked that his mother be allowed to help him end his torment without risking prosecution under French laws prohibiting assisted suicide. He repeated that plea in a book, I Ask You for the Right to Die. Though police say Humbert may face homicide charges, Justice Minister Dominique Perben urged "the largest degree of humanity be applied" in the case. The ordeal sparked...
...exorcise all of it, playing this guy. I get all that stuff out of me, grinding all over fresh teenage girls once every few years. Getting to torment them with my S&M glove...
...American soldiers enduring the torment of a searing Iraqi summer, the war's toll continues to mount. Three more U.S. soldiers died last week, and more than 20 were wounded in attacks across Iraq. The growing intensity of the fighting was highlighted around the town of Balad, 40 miles north of Baghdad, where militants wounded 17 soldiers in an attack on a U.S. base. Hours later a separate group of 50 resistance fighters tried to ambush a U.S. convoy, resulting in an eight-hour fire fight that left 11 Iraqis dead. Most attacks on U.S. soldiers are not even reported...
...Speaking under a withering mid-day sun, which forced even the locals to tent the day's program on their heads to sneak some relief, Bush compared the slaves struggle to Christ's torment in a speech that repeatedly returned to religious themes. And he said that it was the slaves who kept the light of liberty alive in America, more so even than the publicly pious who had become corrupted by the "peculiar institution." "Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice," said Bush. "A republic founded on equality...
...know you’re all burned out senior year, I know I certainly was. I went to Armenia the summer after graduating to study Armenian. It was a nightmarish psychological experience, I found it very refreshing. It was primal torment rather than the more refined psychological torture of college, from girls in particular...