Word: hellishness
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...much she may have wished to forget. Born into the florid decay of imperial China, Daisy would live through a particular horror: she watched her own mother, forced to become a concubine, commit suicide by swallowing raw opium. Despite such early trauma, she managed to survive in Shanghai amid hellish marital troubles (her brutal first husband divorced her and seized custody of her three children), before she fled to the U.S. As Daisy exhibits symptoms of Alzheimer's, a concerned Amy takes her mother in for tests; Daisy growls, "Nothing wrong my memory. Depress 'cause can not forget." Amy suffered...
...Dartboard is an optimist at heart, and when life throws Dartboard lemons—or a hellish exile in the depths of residential Cambridge—Dartboard makes lemonade. Suddenly, packed in with the human freight of the Shuttle, Dartboard was struck by inspiration: If the top floors of Hilles can be converted from study to College-sanctioned tomfoolery, why not some portion of the shabby Shuttle...
...hundreds of thousands of North Koreans who live?and in many cases die?in actual prison camps. Last week, the private U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea released The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps, a chillingly comprehensive description of Kim Jong Il's hellish penal system. Written by veteran human rights investigator David Hawk, the report draws on interviews with 30 former guards and inmates, including escapees forcibly repatriated from China. Among their revelations...
There’s no mincing words: Washington D.C.’s public schools are hellish. By the time the system’s students are in the fourth grade, 94 percent are not proficient in math and 90 percent are not proficient in reading. It only gets worse, though. About half of D.C.’s kids don’t graduate. Those who do are not given any sort of terminal proficiency examination; and, if they were, the results would probably be horrific...
...weeks ago Undersecretary of State for Non Proliferation John Bolton issued a blistering attack on North Korea's leader, calling him a "tyrannical dictator" who has subjected his people to a "hellish nightmare." Administration officials defended Bolton's remarks even after the North Koreans responded with some vicious verbal salvos of their own and threatened to boycott the Beijing talks if Bolton was a delegate. Still, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage announced Tuesday that Bolton would not, in fact, be sent to the talks. The last thing Washington wants to do is give the notoriously fickle North Koreans...