Word: wrackingly
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MOST STUDENTS don't have to wrack their brains when they gripe about Harvard. They complain--often nonchalantly--about parietal rules, course requirements, restrictions on off-campus living, the inaccessability of many professors, the long march from Radcliffe and the Houses to the Yard, and a thousand other things...
Shipwreck and sea-wrack and sea-tangle Survive the dark magmas foundering Kelson and sextants relinquish a wrangle In souls from breached flesh combustions wring A subtlety alembicked and affined To ardent basalts...
...forest roof, and so great are the chances of failure, that nothing precisely and identically human is likely ever to come that way again. There may be wisdom; there may be power; somewhere across space great instruments, handled by strange, manipulative organs, may stare vainly at our floating cloud wrack, their owners yearning as we yearn. Nevertheless, in the nature of life and in the principles of evolution we have had our answer. Of men elsewhere, and beyond, there will be none forever...
...long roll of wrack at sea, the burning of the Skaubryn will be remembered as a disaster where men triumphed, and not the elements. The master of City of Sydney sent a radio message of farewell to Skaubryn's Captain Alf Faeste and his crew: "Your feat in lowering 16 boats containing 1,300 people into the water in 35 minutes without loss of life or injury, with so little warning, and from a blazing ship, is a superb example of seamanship and discipline unique in maritime history. When you speak of this disaster, you can hold your heads...
...laid a curse on you, Ilya? What have you done? You are kind, intelligent, tender, honorable, and-you are going to wrack and ruin! What has ruined you? There is no name for that evil.' " 'Yes, there is,' he said in a hardly audible whisper...