Word: torments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhode Island, but don't be surprised if you see him muttering some choice words about his home state under his new Fu Manchu moustache. Rhode Island began plaguing him earlier this month when several players suffered injuries at the St. George's School training camp, and the torment continued Saturday in Kingston as a strong University of Rhode Island club downed the Crimson...
...attacking the Ford Administration. "We have been governed by veto too long," he said. "We have suffered enough at the hands of a tired and worn-out Administration without new ideas, without youth or vitality, without vision, and without the confidence of the American people." After "a time of torment," he argued, "it is now a time for healing. It is time for the people to run the Government and not the other way around." Next year, Carter predicted, "we are going to have that new leadership," adding in a frequent ad lib to his text: "You can depend...
...possessed extraordinary skill at getting what he wanted by wanting only what seemed good for the country. Like nearly every Washington biographer, Cunliffe compares the man's virtues to those of ancient Rome: "As for ambition-gloria -it is conceived as a civic impulse, not a private torment ... Washington's desire to be well thought of is a classical desire not in the least akin to the populist, other-directed anxiousness that renders prominent men of the present day so susceptible to the idea of public opinion...
...motorcycle on a breakneck run through the English countryside. Two boys on bicycles moved into his path. He swerved, flew over the handlebars and fell fatally to the road. Could it be said that in a final ironic effort to protect other's lives, Lawrence gained release from the torment...
...play that The Heiress seems to owe more to O. Henry than to Henry James. As a revival it must compete, too, with the memory of earlier incarnations, the 1947 play with Basil Rathbone and an oft-replayed movie starring Ralph Richardson as the coruscating father. The torment inflicted upon the daughter by the father can still stir old-fashioned pity, even in the age of women's lib, and the claustrophobic gentility of this 1850s New York home adds a note of melodrama...