Word: hardships
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...worker in California's San Fernando Valley, is struck by how many poor people seem to be rooting for a depression on the theory that "it would be good for the affluent to know how we feel." A few others, who are now comfortable but once suffered economic hardship, want their children to suffer as they did. On her lecture tours round the country, Psychologist Joyce Brothers has discovered that many parents "feel a depression would be good for their children. They themselves lived through the lean years, and now they see their kids rejecting the value of work...
...with the other two holdouts; doctors in Jakarta pronounced him "exceedingly fit," even though at week's end he was suffering from a mild case of malaria. A member of the Ami tribe from Taiwan-long reputed for their bravery, stamina and ability to absorb hardship-Nakamura would like to return home and join his wife. She has long since remarried, but says that she will still be happy to see him. So far, the Japanese government has not sent a jet to take him back to Tokyo nor have the banners been brought out for a grand welcome...
...Year 1974, I nominate the people of Israel. They have endured economic hardship, increasing diplomatic isolation and military odds such as few other nations have had to face...
...implausible reversals in attitude that the three family members display. Nor could she have removed certain elements of the plot that seem ludicrous. For example, shortly after Deborah has resolved never to communicate with Simon again, considering him lost to his common Irish biddy, she is forced by financial hardship to ask his charity. She does so only after great deliberation, and then almost instantaneously decides to become a loving mother-in-law as well. This unnatural, almost absurd changes of heart towards Sara makes Deborah's subsequent rapport with her hard to swallow...
Some students manage to avoid 50-cent fare even if not enrolled at school in Cambridge. A grad student in physiology, who has to commute daily, complained to the Med School business offive, saying that the fare was an "undue hardship." She now receives ten free tokens per week...