Word: chafes
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...Boxed-In. They feel the church stifles personal growth or makes intolerable moral and doctrinal demands. Many are ill-informed ex-Roman Catholics who used to chafe under strict rules that now have eased somewhat...
...have a number of complaints. During the ten years of occupation, West Bankers say, they have consistently been subjected to mass arrests for security violations, interrogation under torture, sudden deportation, communal punishment for individual offenses (TIME, May 30). Even those who have not run afoul of Israeli military discipline chafe under a regime they find capricious and humiliating. Complains Tayseer Kanaan, who was Jerusalem's chief judge in the time of Jordanian rule: "Even my tax and phone bills are in Hebrew. It makes me feel illiterate; I have to go to someone else to find out what they...
...feel the chafe of choking marriage yoke...
...film, if not the war, ends at the outset of this decade. Finney has begun to chafe and drink under the pressures of holding on to his mistress and landing a higher-level job, and now looks forward to a day when "people will stay together because they really want to." Roberts has become almost catatonic, neglects her housework and her appearance, and stoops, desperately, to the last ploy she can think of to blackmail Finney back: "If you walk out that door," she threatens, "I'll klll myself, and the kids too." But when he goes she pours...
...picture camera in the 1940s. Lately his main job has been to work out the problems that still bedevil production of the SX-70, Polaroid's revolutionary instant-color camera, and have cut deeply into the company's earnings. Unlike Wyman, McCune is not the sort to chafe at Land's tight grip. He has said in the past that he accepts Land's managerial motto: "You can do anything you want to-as long as you do what I want...