Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...design for living. A situation that sacrifices the friendship of the two men on the altar of a woman's love can only result in the death of one of the lovers, and with superb irony it is Hayward who dies, leaving Muni to go back, broken by the ordeal, to his unfaithful spouse. And for the war which causes the folly and the insane madness of men, one can feel only extreme distaste...
...significance. But from here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. It seems a great madness. If this attitude is not changed, I don't see how our civilization, as we know it, will survive. ... If I survive this ordeal, I shall devote what is left of my life largely to trying to help further the friendship of my country with other nations of the world...
...future "problems and policies" which the Spirits Institute feels it must solve and formulate were apparently considered by the industry as too "broad" to be handled by plugging, business-like Dr. James M. Doran. executive secretary who wet-nursed the business through the ordeal of Repeal regulations, or Distiller Owsley Brown of Louisville, whom Mr. Morgan replaces as the Institute's president. What the Institute was out for was a Tsar of high power, smoothness and influence. In fact, among those first approached was none other than Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
Sweet as they are, earnings are not the only thing the roads have to show for their five years' ordeal. For, heading out of the Depression in 1937, the U. S. railroads find themselves today not so rich in materials as they were in 1929, but far richer in resource and morale. A ringside spectator at 17 years of railroad history is Joseph Bartlett Eastman, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1919, and the New Deal's erstwhile Coordinator of Transportation. Skeptical about private ownership as he is, nevertheless he told the Boston Chamber of Commerce...
...There have been instances when . . . the victim's children were tortured before his eyes-a more terrible ordeal for the father than any that could be inflicted on his own body."Eugene Lyons is a thoroughly professional journalist, but Isaac Don Levine is an avowed, outspoken partisan of Trotsky against Stalin...