Word: hardships
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...future; what they want is rest and contentment. Mao Tse-tung sees in Russia the seeds of his own downfall: a Red revolution that, thanks to that same contentment and economic success, shows signs of evolving into a bourgeois society. To an old fighter whose victories were forged in hardship, it is an utterly unacceptable prospect. Hence the current Chinese purge...
Burning Sincerity. Whatever the theme or style, the essence of the blues is a quality of burning sincerity called "soul." "Soul is something that you feel within yourself and you gotta give to the people," explains Singer-Guitarist Magic Sam. "It's hardship, what you've been through. I love it even though it makes me sad, because that's what I am." Adds retired Harmonica Player Shaky Jake: "Blues are the true story, the truest music I ever heard in my life...
...purposely harm me in any way," said Peggy, "other than the fear, the tension, and the hardship of being in the woods and being away from my family...
...suggest, are troubled by this issue, complicated as it is by their often finding the war in Viet Nam itself morally questionable. A lottery, while in some sense more democratic, contributes nothing to the problem of enlisting the idealism and capacity of young Americans for a required period of hardship and service at home or abroad...
Weaver also revived the long-dormant idea of federal rent subsidies for the ailing and aged. That proposal narrowly passed the Congress last year, but the eligibility regulations were so carelessly written by the HHFA that "hardship" cases with as much as $25,000 in net assets could have qualified for rent help. Congress refused to appropriate funds for it, and many people thought that Weaver had thereby destroyed his chances of becoming HUD Secretary. Weaver now airily dismisses it all as "purely a printer's slip...