Word: trauma
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...sheik, according to Rivas, slapped him across the face, inflicting what Rivas' lawyers call "an ear injury and trauma to the right cheek...
...crime for a Windsor woman to admire younger men, particularly in England's second Elizabethan age. "Admittedly," adds Worsthorne in afterthought, "Roddy Llewellyn is no Essex or Walter Raleigh, but then she herself is no virgin queen." The princess's defenders also recall Margaret's pathetic trauma of 1955, when she was forced to end her much publicized romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend...
After especially rough behavior, however, they worry that they have been "bad"--probably recalling the horrendous, undeserved punishments of their past. Such previous emotional trauma sometimes produces gaps in their basic thought processes: one 12-year-old guessed there were 21 months in a year, while a seven-year-old declared, "Owls eat people--I know because I was one last week." Thoughts like that do not seem to be normal childhood fantasies...
...great detail, the show is a dramatic reminder of how vital a contribution Dada and surrealism made to the modernist imagination. No painting or poetry had been so resolutely and bitterly antiauthoritarian. Dada was the child of trauma; the first World War, that cultural chasm, had revealed - in the sheer incapacity of words to convey its degree of lethal absurdity - the extent to which language itself was owned by the officer classes of Europe...
...direct role in an emergency government that would deal with Italy's mounting economic, labor and law-and-order problems. The Christian Democrats' dilemma: find a compromise that would give the Communists new power in governing Italy, however that role might be disguised, or face the trauma of another early national election that would further polarize the country...