Word: trauma
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...everyone involved but the phlegmatic Hinckley, the trauma of deciding his fate-a process that cost as much as $2.5 million*-was a wrenching ordeal. In the end, the awesome responsibility of sorting out the conflicting testimony and bewildering law fell on five men and seven women. A janitor, a cafeteria worker, a garage attendant, all but one black, they were not a jury of Hinckley's peers except in the legal sense. For 24 hours spread over four days they vacillated until, almost as an act of despair, they reached a decision that left them uneasy and bitter...
Although the hostages' nearly total news blackout proved generally frustrating and unsettling, it ironically cushioned them against emotional trauma during the most dangerous or disheartening periods of their captivity. "When the rescue attempt failed, the students were smiling and charging around the embassy saying. "Come on." Swift recalls. "We thought we were being released." Actually, the hostages were only moved to another room--and did not learn of the rescue attempt until one of the students mentioned it some time later...
While in those camps, Cheu witnessed the torture and execution of his friend. Neghio Ngo A psychologist testified that Chau had the most serious case of "Vietnam syndrome" --a catastrophic trauma--that he had ever seen, and said that Chau had assumed the identity of the slain Ngo the night he threw the bomb...
Because Reardon failed to act decisively, the players and Kleinfelder remained in limbo. Perhaps he was trying to lower the axe gently to protect Kleinfelder's feelings, but he also should have contemplated the emotional trauma Kleinfelder must have faced in spending months in a state of confusion and worry...
...Holy Week began in Jerusalem, Israelis were locked in a series of struggles on a number of fronts. They were striving to maintain a tight hold on the occupied Arab territories and trying to adjust at the same time to the trauma of withdrawing at long last from the Sinai, the great desert barrier that separates them from Egypt...