Word: hardships
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...parents who count on driving their kids up, to ask them to take off work is a hardship, something we should avoid," Dingman said...
Blair's comfortable upbringing means his politics aren't grounded in the old class resentments that animated Labour leaders before him. Yet he has known heartbreak and hardship. When Tony was only 11, his father, a law professor, suffered a serious stroke just as he was about to run for Parliament as a Conservative. With his father disabled, Blair received scholarship help to attend a tony prep school in Scotland. He did well enough there to pass the tough exams for Oxford in 1972, where he showed little interest in politics. He studied law, but is remembered most...
...just getting started. We have much familiar hardship and vile torment to go. Not to mention the inevitable triumph of the human spirit. One day Adrienne Pargiter (Glenn Close) and Margaret Drummond (Pauline Collins) get to humming the theme from a symphony. The former once studied music seriously; the latter is a missionary who knows how inspiring a good tune can be when you're in the dumps. Or trying to survive in one. Soon enough the prisoners form a symphonic chorus, which sings wordless versions of great orchestral works. Even the more selfish and cynical prisoners--among them recent...
...with fetal alcohol syndrome and helped focus national attention on the illness. In addition to his publications, Dorris was an accomplished anthropologist. He founded the Native American Studies department at Dartmouth College in 1972 and served as its head until 1985. Despite his achievements, Dorris' life was plagued by hardship. In 1991, his adopted son, Reynold Abel, died after being hit by a car. In 1995 another adopted son, Jeffrey, was was put on trial for trying to extort $15,000 from him. The impending divorce from his wife, the novelist Louise Erdrich, added to his travails. Dorris...
...ashore on Sumatra will turn out to be a sadist? When the commandant of the camp where they?re interned appears, are we not instantly certain he studied penology with Colonel Saito over on the River Kwai?" And that's just the start of things. There's much familiar hardship and vile torment to go, not to mention the inevitable triumph of the human spirit. One day Adrienne Pargiter (Glenn Close) and Margaret Drummond (Pauline Collins) get to humming the theme from a symphony. The former once studied music seriously; the latter is a missionary who knows how inspiring...