Word: hardships
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Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a middle-aged Parisian lawyer who would rather do good than make good. He specializes in hardship cases, preferably widows and orphans. He never charges the poor a fee. He even likes to go out of his way to lead a blind man across the street...
...primitive villages in which they were born-his in Siberia, hers near Moscow. The two entered the sinister service of the MVD, after apprenticeship in the Red Youth Organization, as happily and naturally as ambitious U.S. youngsters would take a job with General Motors. Each had early experiences of hardship that evoke the lower depths of Gorky. (Evdokia was hung by her heels in a barn and whipped by a grandfather because she had picked a cucumber; Vladimir went hungry because the family horse he tried to sell to the White army was too poor.) But they worked their dutiful...
They will tell you that the tales you have heard concerning the difficulty of the competition are grossly exaggerated. They will explain that any student who can budget his time reasonably well can get through the comp without undue hardship...
...bills introduced by Republicans would prohibit the suspension of drivers' licenses on a first offense for speeding. Another would authorize restoration of suspended licenses in "hardship cases." These would include licenses of truck drivers and others who make a living by driving...
Since all the Department's courses are somewhat specialized, May said, the Generals will probably require additional outside reading by most students. Although he realized this might be considered a hardship by this year's junior class, he noted a compensating element in the fact that students will only have to answer questions from two of the areas in Part II, rather than from three, as before...