Word: hardships
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...performance and was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. Today, out of hospital, solvent and dreaming of buying a house, she credits these experiences for the raw emotion in her extraordinary voice. "When I sing, people cry," says Sidumo. "I ask them, 'Why?' They say, 'I was thinking about hardship. I lost my husband. I lost my children.' Then they tell me that the music makes them feel their spirits healing. That's our magic...
...know what my family had to endure under Saddam," Jafar said. "As an American, you wonder why it’s in American interests, and as an Iraqi, you understand that your parents and your family and your extended family endured hardship under this awful dictator...
...Despite the conservatives' focus on threats from abroad, these elections come at a time of great economic hardship for many Iranians, with double-digit inflation curbing their annual New Year's shopping spree that usually occurs around this time. That has prompted a number of candidates promoting themselves as dard-ashna, a new campaign catch-phrase whose translation vaguely echoes Bill Clinton's 1992 line, "I feel your pain...
...replace him. And this political upheaval’s side-effects extended beyond Cuban soil. Castro’s coup d’etat set in motion a series of events that brought many families, like those of Lage, Velo, and Balmori, to the United States, albeit through much hardship. After Lage’s grandfather’s general store was seized by armed guards, Lage’s father boarded one of the “freedom flights” inaugurated by President Lyndon B. Johnson, taking him to the United States. When Lage’s grandfather...
...what celebrated historian Manning Clark called "that rude and barbarous land." The first settlers found themselves in an alien world, and for the convicts among them, the land's harshness must have seemed part of their punishment. The nation's self-image was shaped by those colonists' experiences of hardship, hunger, hostile natives, droughts and floods - their sense, from the outset, of being profoundly at odds with the land they had to call their home...