Word: hellishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Well before this hellish week for Summers, the embattled president had already come under fire from faculty who objected to the dearth of tenure appointments offered to women under his watch. In the 2003-2004 school year, just 4 of 32 Faculty of Arts and Sciences tenure offers were to women...
...only league in Division I without a year-end conference tournament to determine the recipient of its automatic bid, a team’s entire season boils down to a hellish two-month span that has become known as the 14-game tournament. One bad weekend, and the rest of a squad’s season can be relegated to an afterthought...
...that end, U.S. military actions must reflect the promise of America’s honorable aims—both for the sake of maintaining the moral high ground and for the practical strategic reason that America must not alienate the people it has undertaken to free. After such hellish times, the people of Iraq, the citizens of the United States and the world as a whole deserve at least that much...
...Short accurately describes Pol Pot's 1975-1979 regime as "a slave state, the first in modern times." His account of those hellish years?1.5 million people murdered, starved or worked to death?is familiar yet shocking. Almost as shocking is the sheer incompetence of Pol Pot's rule. He had barely come to power before initiating the policies that helped him lose it: the evacuation of urban centers, which caused mass rural starvation, and the extermination of the skilled and the educated. In 1978, dimly sensing his reign of terror was collapsing, he issued a belated directive for cadres...
...Hellish Highways "Asian countries are more vulnerable to road-related mishaps because traffic-safety measures have been put on the back burner." Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...