Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once again (almost with the frequency of the Russians) science has changed its party line, leading one to suspect that it favors "struggle" theories in odd centuries and "harmony" theories in even ones. Scientists may enjoy the stimulation of constantly changing ideas. However, they ought to realize the hardship which they are imposing on the rest of suffering humanity, which must change its view entirely...
...Divorce. Instead of treating marriage as a social institution, let alone a divine one, U.S. public opinion "tends to regard marriage as a private affair." As divorce becomes more and more accepted as a solution to marriage failures, Catholics tend to feel more and more hardship in denying divorce...
...volume of ancient history. His eye fell on a chapter concerning ancient Cyprus and copper. Months later, with the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd and Philip Wiseman, Gunther began the long and finally successful search for new copper on Cyprus. Twenty years of U.S. perseverance, frugality and hardship passed before the Cyprus Mines Corp. paid its first dividends...
...determination of Montgomery Negroes in their demand for equal rights on the city's busses has not faltered throughout 90 days of personal sacrifice and economic hardship. Since December 5th, when a 42-year old Negro seamstress was convicted under Alabama law for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, the city's 65,000 Negroes have carried out a bus boycott that has been virtually one hundred percent effective...
...Away Plan. In Passaic, N.J., after being arrested for the third time for beating his wife, Allen Irving complained that his 90-day jail sentence would be a "hardship," was told by Magistrate H. Dick Cohen: "We'll make an exception in your case; you can come to jail every Saturday night and stay until Sunday night-for [a total of] 90 days...