Word: torments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful magnet. Before long he tricks the child into swapping the magnet for an "invisible watch." As Johnny goes along the streets on his way home, testing the magnet on nails and old bits of iron, remorse suddenly strikes him. But it's too late; fate begins to torment...
...suggested names. He suffers other pangs: the fright of finding his daughter a back-to-nature devotee of childbirth-without-fear; the nuisance of patching up her jealous spat with her husband (Don Taylor) ;the strain of rushing to the hospital for a false alarm. His grandson completes the torment by taking a special dislike...
...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...