He is said to be physically fine, but American officials and representatives of his paper described a harrowing week, during which the 28-year-old journalist was repeatedly interrogated and harassed.

But his Nashua campaign coordinator, Kris Durmer, recalls reeling through the harrowing final week of the Democratic primary with a Biblical sense of mortality.

Though he was occasionally writing, Abigail didn't receive any of John's letters for five harrowing weeks while she battened down in Braintree, with anxieties rising daily.

Henry Parker, having closed a harrowing week, and Jack O'Donnell, "fresh out of rehab", must track down two "brutal, calculating" killers.

All the character testing and background checking that played out over months for the candidates of 1988 has been compressed, for Mr. Clinton, to a few harrowing weeks.

The announcements could hardly have come during a more harrowing week.

Even after a harrowing week, most analysts say no, that the rally is here to stay.

Parlier Loses Icy Vendee Lead Thousands of miles away, another Englishman also endured a harrowing week.

Obama was coming off a harrowing week that was of his own making.

The novel focuses on a harrowing week that culminates in Stephen and Mary making the long drive to Stephen's hometown to visit Stephen's aging mother.