Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Mussoorie. That morning, he gave a political pep talk to local Congress Party workers, then moved on to Mussoorie's Savoy Hotel to address the Travel Agents Association of India, crisply advising his audience that travel "should involve some adventure, some risk, some hardship," because the "comfortable life is rightly boring and dull...
...admonitions he gave to travelers were ones that Nehru was in no mood to follow himself against aggressive Red China. Speaking about India's relations with Peking, Nehru soft-pedaled all thought of risk, hardship and adventure. It was almost as if he were setting out to prove that the revolt in Tibet-"the treacherous armed rebellion," in Peking's words-was nothing to get excited about...
Having made it clear to all-and especially to Red China-that the Dalai Lama would get political asylum in India but no help in regaining his homeland, Nehru remounted his white horse and traveled-avoiding risk, hardship and adventure-off into the evening...
...court apparently takes the position," charged Black, "that a second trial for the same act is somehow less offensive if one of the trials is conducted by the Federal Government and the other by a state." In a surprising aside he noted that the majority opinions would work a hardship only on "the poor and the weak without friends in high places" who could "influence prosecutors not to try them again...
Radcliffe scholarships will be raised in specific cases of individual hardship in order to meet the new increase in rent charges, Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction, announced yesterday. A blanket enlargement of all grants, without consideration of personal difficulties, will not be undertaken...