Word: hardship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents who count on driving their kids up, to ask them to take off work is a hardship, something we should avoid," Dingman said...
...when there was nowhere for the Jews of the world to go. These are 49 years which came only three years after the fires of the crematoria were extinguished for good. These are 49 years of a constant struggle to retain independence and forty nine years of hardship...
...first Jewish settlers of what was then Palestine came with only the clothes on their backs and a shovel in their hands. They transformed the land from swamps into pastures and made the deserts bloom. Later settlers came from all over the world, to hardship and trouble, to the knowledge that their sons would be required to serve in the army first for three years and then in the reserves for the next 30. They came with knowledge that Israel faces a threat to its existence daily, that no decade has passed without a war, and that their sons, their...
Blair's comfortable upbringing means his politics aren't grounded in the old class resentments that animated Labour leaders before him. Yet he has known heartbreak and hardship. When Tony was only 11, his father, a law professor, suffered a serious stroke just as he was about to run for Parliament as a Conservative. With his father disabled, Blair received scholarship help to attend a tony prep school in Scotland. He did well enough there to pass the tough exams for Oxford in 1972, where he showed little interest in politics. He studied law, but is remembered most...
...with fetal alcohol syndrome and helped focus national attention on the illness. In addition to his publications, Dorris was an accomplished anthropologist. He founded the Native American Studies department at Dartmouth College in 1972 and served as its head until 1985. Despite his achievements, Dorris' life was plagued by hardship. In 1991, his adopted son, Reynold Abel, died after being hit by a car. In 1995 another adopted son, Jeffrey, was was put on trial for trying to extort $15,000 from him. The impending divorce from his wife, the novelist Louise Erdrich, added to his travails. Dorris...