Word: gnawing
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...still hold his head up. "Oh sure, as long as I am convinced that what I've done while being here was right. And I have absolute confidence in the decisions I have made. If you feel you've done the right thing, defeat doesn't gnaw at you, it doesn't keep you from sleeping at night." He could go back to Grand Rapids, he nodded, if it were necessary...
...Crimson closed within five points after Banks sailed home two last-ditch tallies, but Joe Leonidis flubbed a desperation layup with 30 seconds remaining and the 6-12 cagers had only sour grapes to gnaw...
...that this is the best of all possible worlds in the U.S. summer of '75. Though the economy shows some signs of recovery, 8.5 million Americans looking for jobs cannot find them, including nearly half the black teen-agers in the tinderbox ghettos. Inflation, though abating, continues to gnaw at the income of those who have work. Oil prices will go up; state and local governments seem in danger of going broke. From the Middle East to Korea, the world remains a hazardous place. And yet there is in the land a sense of letting go, of looking...
Instead of seeing an analyst, Sonny goes off on an African safari. While watching the lions gnaw on bits of zebras and wildebeests, he ponders the survival of the fittest and all the superb reasons for putting Castleman behind him. But it is no use. Only Castleman's death will release the younger man from his loyal bondage. Even worse, only Castleman's death, which does not oocur until seven pages from the end, releases readers from one of the more tiresome fictional presences in recent memory...
...city sewers. South American piranhas have checked out of private aquariums to infest Southern waterways. Pet snakes of many deadly varieties escape and terrorize whole neighborhoods. Argentine monk parakeets are fleeing the cage and filching the fruit from Midwestern orchards. Land snails slither out of home aquariums to gnaw the stucco outside. A fugitive kangaroo has hopped 250 miles through Illinois and zapped several cops. In every city in America, abandoned dogs rampage in wild packs through vacant lots and nocturnal streets. In New York City alone, 38,000 people annually require medical attention for dogbites. In rural areas, wild...