Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quality of T.R. that added the vital plus to his program was that he had learned, during long and full years of growth and experience, joy and hardship, that compromise is no substitute for decisiveness, that inspiration is made out of specific minute-by-minute leadership. He had also absorbed out of a long career of professional politics, precincts and patronage a healthy notion about how the presidency ought...
...committee added another hardship for the proponents of FOOTball, by changing the distance for conversion from two yards to three yards. At the same time, they rejected proposals to move the goalposts back to the goal line, as in professional football, or to authorize any changes in the construction of the goalposts which would put a premium on kicking ability...
Under the circumstances it was not difficult for the regime to effect the separation of families. Chronic economic hardship made it necessary for both father and mother to work long hours six days a week, leaving them little time to devote to their offspring. Yet even this was too much for the authorities. The government established "seminaries" in the nationalized factories and various other places of business where ideological lectures were held for workers after they had finished their daily chores. The worker who failed to frequent these lectures in order to hurry home to his family was subject...
...German Pasha. In finding Livingstone, Stanley may have found himself. He became a full-time explorer. The rest of The Man Who Presumed tells the fabulous schoolboy stories of Stanley's later explorations of Equatorial Africa-stirring tales of hardship and struggle, replete with flying spears, poisoned arrows, and many a gentle rebuke from Stanley's elephant gun. Before Stanley died peacefully in bed in 1904, he seemed compelled again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name...
...Republic, on Turkey's eastern border. At his hotel Pineau was confronted by hundreds of French-speaking Armenians who had been lured back from France after World War II by Soviet blandishments to "come home and help build a new Armenian homeland." They greeted Pineau with tales of hardship and persecution and tearful pleas for repatriation to France. Embarrassed, Pineau backed away, but before leaving, exacted from his official hosts a promise that there would be no reprisals against the demonstrators. Because of engine trouble, his plane did not take off as scheduled, and his party returned for another...