Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the ordeal, however, MacDonald stuck to the main outline of his recantation. He claimed that police Captain Charles Goff had forced his identification of Billings and Mooney in the city prison, that District Attorney Fickert had put "a whole pack of lies" into his head which he repeated to the trial juries. Said he: "Fickert told me if I would stand by the identification of Billings and Mooney I'd get the biggest slice of the reward." Asked Justice Preston mockingly: "You swore this at the time God was judging you to be a liar" MacDonald only wept...
...spurted out. They had to land- with a new endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec., more than 133 hr. better than the previous mark. Followed the frenzied aftermath, no less dizzying to the humble family from Sparta, Ill. than had been the three-week ordeal. With their brothers Walter and Albert of the refueling plane, and Sister Irene who had cooked for them, and their 62-year-old mother, Mrs. Ida Hunter, the flyers were whisked to a roof-bungalow atop the Hotel Sherman, there to blink at unaccustomed splendor, to listen-dazedly to the bickerings...
Last Sunday was feast day of Saints Peter & Paul. His Holiness continued what was becoming a physically painful ordeal, canonized ten more saints. Two were Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, illustrious Jesuit, and Theophilus Da Corte. The others were the first North American saints, all martyred by Indians-Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Gamier (Jesuit priests), René Goupil, John Lalande (laymen) (TIME, April...
...National Temperance Bureau, Elbert Deets Pickett of the Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Prohibition, Temperance & Public Morals, Canon William Sheafe Chase of the International Reform Federation, and Eugene L. Crawford of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. These witnesses were spared the ordeal of direct testimony and cross-examination by Wet committee members, when Chairman Graham, to save time, adjourned the hearing and permitted the witnesses to file prepared statements. New York's Wet Congressman La Guardia wailed his disappointment: "And here I've been waiting ten years for a chance...
...prisoner in jail. Therefore Mme Hanau was removed under guard to Cochin hospital, where the seven brawny internes had a struggle indeed. The tip of a funnel was placed in one of Mme Hanau's nostrils. Some lukewarm cafe au lait was poured into her. After this ordeal the patient seemed to be so exhausted that she was merely locked in a hospital room and left alone without special guards...