Word: hardships
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...Pyongyang from 1981 to 1985.) In exchange, he would receive a guaranteed maximum of 30 days' confinement. During the proceedings, Sergeant Jenkins filled in many of the missing gaps of his life, explaining why he decided to desert to North Korea, the first 15 years of material and emotional hardship during which he said he wished almost daily for death, how he met his future wife in 1980, and his life with her and their two children over the next 22 years. When the trial was over, he was given his 30-day term, along with a demotion to private...
...husband after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the nonaggression pact early in World War II,her children told the Boston Globe in 1993. But Davis remained vocal about progressive issues through her speeches and writing. She wrote magazine articles about the Harlan County coal strike and the hardship of Southern tenant farming...
...films is that he places his characters in situations that require almost otherworldly instincts. What perhaps gives his films their reputation as being “edgy” is his consistent penchant for placing his characters in a kind of hyper-real universe in which they face extreme hardship and sharp transition around every turn. He explains that this is the best way to uncover the strange behavioral truths that make such situations survivable...
Dartboard can understand the hardship of mass-producing food for a fickle population, and in many cases would not demand further expense. But for the Harvard students who want to salvage that not-so-happy meal or wake up to the familiar pots of gold swimming in his or her Lucky Charms, a change should be made...
...wife, also a coach, observes: "Maybe to foreigners, this looks cruel. But it's because we start kids very young and train them hard that we have become so successful in gymnastics." Says her husband, who has been coaching since 1983: "The Chinese race knows how to endure hardship. Our job is to push these kids to their limits, so they can perform gloriously for our nation." Behind him on the wall, below oversized Olympic and Chinese flags, giant red lettering summarizes the motto of the Weilun school, proud breeding ground of eight athletes at this month's Athens Olympics...