Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allay the tensions it breeds. One way of easing misery would be to establish an international commission to repatriate divided families; as it becomes more and more hazardous to escape from East Germany, Ulbricht's regime might welcome the measure of respectability to be derived from reuniting hardship cases-even though the traffic would be overwhelmingly...
...while she found the German middle class "pedantic and small," she found in the workers' way of life "greatness and scope ... I simply found it beautiful." Later, after her doctor husband established a practice in the workers' section of North Berlin, she came to know firsthand the "hardship and tragedy" of her husband's patients. When her 18-year-old son Peter was killed in World War I, her sense of tragedy deepened. The bronze monument she designed for him, showing the two parents grieving, was agony in itself; it took her 18 years to finish...
...really wants to help Hong Kong solve the refugee problem, it must consider the colony a hardship case...
Perhaps they are not yet prepared to inherit the mess. But another realignment of leadership seems inevitable, and much of the betting favors increased power for Bias Roca, Rodriguez & Co. For Cuba, the melancholy prospect is of continued hardship and little hope of freedom or improvement. In which case, men of cunning and mettle have the best chance of survival. Bias Roca, the Rock, figures on being firmly in place...
Finally, the President has announced this week that Prof. Tillich will be required to give examinations in his courses. This might have been a wise decision, had it been made early in February. But by delaying the announcement, the Administration has caused undue hardship to many students. Indeed, one student has been forced to change more than one hundred reservations on a summer trip. Surely students have a right to know the requirements in a course before they commit themselves to take the course...