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• n  violent pangs of suffering
  death throes
• n  severe spasm of pain
  the throes of dying
  the throes of childbirth
• n  hard or painful trouble or struggle
  a country in the throes of economic collapse

• By the early 1960s, china was in the throes of economic catastrophe and widespread famine--both resulting from the radical political and economic experiments of Mao Zedong's Great .
• Unlike the EU, which finds itself in the throes of a mid-life crisis as it celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its founding treaty this year, 51-year-old Eurovision continues .
• The city that care forgot is in the throes of an identity crisis, torn between its shady, bead-tossing past and the sanitized Disneyland future some envision.

• throe

News & Articles

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• Cancer patients abandoning their beds and hitting the gym
  In the throes of sometimes devastating treatments, cancer patients are turning to fitness classes to rejuvenate their bodies, fend off recurrences.
  June 11, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• On The Racked: Get Married For Cheap In A Converted Stable Or Firehouse
  Our sister site Racked is in the throes of a wedding bonanza. To kick off Wedding Week 2013, they've tracked down a lineup of cool venues for weddings that won't break the bank. Among them is the New York...
  June 10, 2013 - Curbed New York
• On the Racked: Get Married for Cheap in a Victorian or Former Printing Plant
  Our sister site Racked SF is in the throes of a wedding week bonanza. To kick off Weddings Week 2013, they're tracked down a lineup of cool venues for weddings that won't break the bank. Among them is the...
  June 10, 2013 - Curbed SF

Quotes

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• Nick Clegg in Sunday Herald
  Clegg said: "We are watching the death throes of the Labour Party. It's the end for Labour. I do not think there is any way back for them. They no longer stand for anything the vast majority of British people need or want".
• Hugh Orde in International Herald Tribune
  Chief Constable Hugh Orde said two dissident groups, the Real IRA and Continuity IRA, were both "very dangerous, like any cornered animal in its death throes."
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Los Angeles Times (blog)
  In the last 10 years, we are in nothing less than a renaissance and pop culture is going back to what it used to be,Gordon-Levitt said. "The big, cliquish machine that used to have all the say, is in its death throes and we're seeing the...