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extremely painful—physically as from a toothache or emotionally as from embarrassment
- At this point in their ordeal, with the men's bodies racked by hunger and excruciating thirst, capture is becoming preferable to certain death.p. 29.4
- The pain is constant and so excruciating that Kennedy often uses crutches or a cane to get around, though rarely in public.p. 33.5
- All of this is in addition to relentless excruciating back pain.p. 126.8
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