Word: tormenting
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...love-and-creation current," and Satan is back in his old doghouse with a new name on the door ("death-and-destruction current"). This may not prove much of a cure for mental depression, but Explorations will at least give readers: 1) a rough reflection of the problems that torment the average man, and 2) a ski-run down the labyrinthine ways that modern pioneers are exploring in search of new answers...
Ankara has become a spectacular mudslinger's paradise. Competing in strong invective, Democrats charge Republicans were corrupt, and Republicans torment Democrats for unfulfilled election promises. The partisan press, now free as the wind off the Taurus mountains, got so abusive toward ex-President Ismet Inönü that he refused to go to a diplomatic party given by President Bayar last month...
...paintings have the neatness of one and the brightness of the other. For all that, no one would describe wan, sociable Graham Sutherland's pictures as "nice." He paints twisted roots, withered brambles and bits of sea wrack in a way that makes them look like people in torment...
Last week, after more than 20 years of such torment, death-ironically, from a heart ailment-came to Percy Emerson Brown, 74, a martyr to the Roentgen rays...
...small airplane and directed the pilot to a fleecy cloud four miles long that was floating over nearby Massachusetts. When he reached it, he scattered into it six pounds of dry ice. Almost at once the cloud, which had been drifting along peacefully, began to writhe as if in torment. White pustules rose from its surface. In 5 minutes the whole cloud melted away, leaving a thin wraith of snow. None of the snow reached the ground (it evaporated on the way down), but the dry ice treatment had successfully broken up a cloud...