Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ulysses is brought to her death at the guns of a hit-and-run German cruiser. Many of those who volunteer to buy the book will wish it could be compulsory reading in Russia. It recalls a cost of Lend-Lease not in dollars or pounds but in unimaginable hardship...
...announcing the increase Bundy emphasized that the College will compensate by expanding its financial aid program. "No individual now at Harvard will be required to withdraw as a result of hardship incurred in trying to meet the increased costs," he said...
Although students with excessive employment loads have been eligible for PT reduction as "hardship cases" upon petition to the administration and Department of Athletics, Council inquiry revealed "only two or three such cases" this year...
...Fire. Between times, the delegates uncertainly considered the future. "Labor's afraid of prosperity," warned the miners' Sam Watson. "Maybe we did found the party out of bitterness and hardship, but those days are gone. Our task now is to learn to enjoy plenty." The party executive's best proposal was a three-year study to shape policy on specific problems. "That's a fat lot of fire to take home to the boys," grumbled one delegate. "Lump of suet dough, that's what I call...
...first try to prevent capture, and once captured, aid their fellow prisoners and use every means to escape. Under new orders issued by Defense Secretary Wilson, military instructors deepen this resourcefulness by training men how to avoid interrogation, to minimize suffering, and increase their chances of survival. Easing the hardship of captivity demands every capacity of each prisoner of war. Yet the new conduct code fails our soldiers when it asks them to rely on their strength in a valiant but obviously hopeless attempt to convince Communist sympathizers of the fairness of American war morals...