Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concubines in full sight of the victims. If he is the Wicked Priest and the community in the desert was founded by Eleazar under John Hyrcanus, the Man of the Lie might be the leader of the Pharisees who had sought to remain in Jerusalem instead of facing ascetic hardship in the desert. In any case it is reasonable to assume that many Pharisees joined the Dead Sea sect at this time...
...magazines seldom propose drastic solutions that involve risk or hardship. Instead, they suggest that most problems can be solved by affection, tolerance, self-discipline-what Sociologist David Riesman calls the "newer, internal goals of happiness and peace of mind." Where their uptown sisters may lean on Norman Vincent Peale or Miltown, Wage-Town women have their magazines...
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a middle-aged Parisian lawyer who would rather do good than make good. He specializes in hardship cases, preferably widows and orphans. He never charges the poor a fee. He even likes to go out of his way to lead a blind man across the street...
...primitive villages in which they were born-his in Siberia, hers near Moscow. The two entered the sinister service of the MVD, after apprenticeship in the Red Youth Organization, as happily and naturally as ambitious U.S. youngsters would take a job with General Motors. Each had early experiences of hardship that evoke the lower depths of Gorky. (Evdokia was hung by her heels in a barn and whipped by a grandfather because she had picked a cucumber; Vladimir went hungry because the family horse he tried to sell to the White army was too poor.) But they worked their dutiful...
They will tell you that the tales you have heard concerning the difficulty of the competition are grossly exaggerated. They will explain that any student who can budget his time reasonably well can get through the comp without undue hardship...