Word: torments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...empire is seized and he is sent into exile, the dialogues become anguished confessionals by one Pangemanann, a native police investigator who works for the government to undermine native political organizations. He adulates Minke, whom he has betrayed, and in House of Glass, the last novel, the author's torment of this official hypocrite is lashing and relentless...
...other outsiders. Shortly afterward, vicious, sustained civil war broke out. In the years since, five different armies have fought in Kabul's streets, battling from house to house, killing 45,000 in one six-month period. Jahannam, says the Koran, is a hellish place of "harrowing torment" where people are kept in "heavy fetters and a blazing fire." This is punishment for sinners in the afterlife; such a horror is not known on earth. Kabul must surely be close...
...Kennedy's office. Years later, in his condolence letter to Jackie after the assassination, Nixon pointedly (and pathetically) mentioned how grateful he had been to have been invited to their wedding. In later life Nixon appears to have regarded all Kennedys as having been placed on earth to torment him. John Kennedy became the gold standard for the style of presidential leadership, and as President, Nixon, to his eternal chagrin, could never seem to decide whether to emulate it or reject...
...apartment firing into Sarajevo," Kruno said. By the time the realization of danger set in, it was too late: tanks, guns and barricades would seal off Sarajevo for the next 43 months. The Oprhals, trapped inside their apartment, suffered a smaller-scale version of the city's long torment...
...only a quainter version of St. Patrick's Day. In the fall, supermarkets hang paper leaves from their cash registers, and cigarette makers issue packages featuring autumn colors. To a jaded foreigner such an observation can seem as formulaic and debased as the Muzaked versions of Jingle Bells that torment every department store from Bangor to Bangkok...