Word: torments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million Huffco oil fortune). The top floor of the Huffington home has been transformed into a suite of offices for her, housing a full-time staff of three. Her assistants research and edit political columns, monographs and speeches that seek to advance Gingrich's cause and torment his rivals...
...insights they arouse that the memoir of an honest man often reveals more than the author intends or recognizes. Morrow's luminous study of self, spurred by a medical crisis, strikes an unexpectedly universal chord. Every man is Everyman, and so the author deals not only with the inner torment of Lance Morrow but also with that...
...turns out that a scientist can see the future by watching four-year-olds interact with a marshmallow. The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torment. You can have this marshmallow right now, he says. But if you wait while I run an errand, you can have two marshmallows when I get back. And then he leaves...
...engage in a roller-coaster ride toward parenthood with unlikely friends Marty and Gail, already have three children and try to convince Samuel of the joys of parenting even as their kids run away, pretend they are Harlequin Romance heroines and generally torment everybody they come into contact with...
More than that, I have been given to seeSingapore and countless other exotic places. Ihave been given to understand how small this worldis and how it torments itself with countlessthings it need not torment itself with if peoplecould find within themselves a little morecourage, a little more hope, a little moreresponsibility, a little more mutual understandingand love...