Word: hardships
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...need for softening the present rule, which forces many students into two full years of foreign language study, has become increasingly evident. A proliferation of paignant hardship cases has made the administrative board chafe under a strict rule that limits exemptions to those with a medically attested learning disability. And as one language professor wryly noted last week, the rule has helped induce a Cambridge epidemic of that rare disease--strephosymbolia. A subclause of the new plan wisely allows the ad board to excuse a student from the requirement if his instructor says that further language study would...
...second day in jail, King fell ill with a virus, and was later transferred to a Birmingham jail equipped with better facilities. After four days, King was freed. "We don't want to work hardship on anybody," said Circuit Judge William C. Barber. "He's served enough time...
...squarely in the old spine-tingling tradition. "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country." And more: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." There was an affirmation in the best spirit of patriotic oratory, and it forced the blood up into the temples of people who never really expected to feel that...
...that no milder from of protest could have. They did not hold Dr. Leavitt all night--only seven hours in the afternoon. They did not assault him. They did nothing to require the use of outside police force. To impose upon a randomly selected group of these protestors the hardship of probation for the rest of the academic year can only be characterized as an overreaction...
...proposals of the graduate school deans, which represent the almost unanimous consensus of educators from all parts of the country, should stir government officials to act to eliminate the disruption, uncertainty and hardship caused by present draft laws...