Word: hardships
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...action. While hippos gambol in the shallows and crocodiles gape evilly from mudbanks, Bogart and Hepburn fight each other, the elements and the Germans. They are shot at by natives, drenched by torrential downpours, devoured by mosquitoes and blood-sucking leeches, felled by malarial fevers. They triumph over heat, hardship and heartbreak only to end as prisoners of the Germans, with the hangman's noose about their necks. But Hollywood knows how a good movie chase must end: in one final, glorious and impossible explosion...
There were important issues which the council left unopened. One is the requirement of two faculty or alumni advisors for an organization, which has placed an extra, unnecessary hardship on certain political groups. Another is clarification of Radcliffe membership in College groups, to show just where responsibility for barring such membership belongs. A third is the requirement that all new organizations submit evidence of financial solvency, which conflicts with the rule that groups are fully responsible for their own finances and seems to imply a University guarantee for groups which pass the financial solvency test...
...brigadier general, 62 for major generals, 64 for above major general). An officer could retire on three-quarters pay before his time only if he had a physical disability or if the Secretary of Defense considered it for the good of the service or a case of personal hardship...
Inside their walled institution, both students and faculty live a Spartan existence. Such hardship, college authorities feel, is in keeping with their belief, that if a person is bigger and better than his fellow man, there is no need for him to use unctuous favor-seeking to gain his ends. The mind with power and purpose is the Closed mind, they feel...
...Yard is not back to the pre-war luxurious pattern, when two men occupied space that was later to be filled comfortably by four. Weeks said that there is no real pattern to the number of men in similar suites this year. Instead the office has been "uncrowding hardship cases"--a suite that is actually smaller than its apparent twin, next door...