Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter of 1838 the Cherokees were rounded up by the U.S. Army and driven from their ancestral homes in the Smoky Mountains over the Trail of Tears to the Oklahoma Territory . . . Some 4,000 of them died because of exposure and hardship...
...sell-out games, and only a minority of Americans-servicemen out-s'de the battle zone, families of men in action and civilians subject to military duty-were directly concerned even in a secondary way. For all its savagery and import, the Korean conflict was working little more hardship on most citizens than the Battle of Wounded Knee...
...falls in love with a young man, she has little time for Agostino. Idling about the beach, he gets in with a bunch of young toughs, sons of the waiters and fishermen. They know a world which well-to-do Agostino has never even glimpsed, a world of hardship and cynicism just beneath poverty-stricken Italy's thin skin of luxury and pleasure...
...Price. The "victory" cost each of Chrysler's 89,000 workers more than three months of hardship and an average of $1,038 in lost wages. It cost about 50,000 workers in Chrysler supplier plants nearly $12 million in paychecks, although they were not on strike, and it deprived Chrysler and its dealers of 518,000 new cars and trucks worth more than $1 billion. It cost Reuther, normally one of the adroitest of negotiators and ablest of labor leaders, considerable prestige; there was strong dissatisfaction in his own ranks because of his arbitrary handling of the strike...
When anxious Republican policymakers asked his opinion on farm price supports he replied: "I would say to the farmers, 'The price of freedom is the same to you as it is to everyone else-a little hardship when times are adverse...