Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success. And in the whole range of drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill are plays that will make theater-going something other than a trial by ordeal...
...sixth night of the coal strike, the President faced another ordeal: the first full-dress U.S. diplomatic dinner in seven years. The 90 guests used gold cutlery from McKinley's time, and china designed by Franklin Roosevelt. The dinner, with turkey as the main course, was called "a good American meal." Harry Truman, who dislikes white tie & tails, wore them well, was apparently at ease and smooth and amiable with the starchy, beribboned envoys. The diplomats agreed they had had a nice evening, and pretty informal, after...
...Last Look. Sergeant Karl Zimmerli, another member of the Swiss rescue party, described grey-haired Margaret Tate, wife of a U.S. general, and engineer George Harvey as "heroes" of the ordeal. Said Zimmerli: "Mrs. Tate is a very brave woman. She stayed cool even when we crossed crevasses which were hundreds of feet deep. Several times she said: 'Pilot is my darling.' I didn't understand until they told me the pilot is her son. That is probably the reason too why she asked me to turn the sledge [towards] the crashed plane. She told...
...Later, in the Solomons, he nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned. When he recovered he got a job as press censor at Sydney. Scripps-Howard tried to spring him out of the Navy after Ernie Pyle died; luckily for Ruark, he stayed in, and was spared the ordeal of trying to follow in Pyle's footsteps (TIME...
...moments of spiritual illumination are regarded by those around her as a nervous disorder, and, like Saint Joan, she is forced to submit to questioning. When her first inquisitor, her hysterical father, uncovers nothing but his own cowardice, a psychiatrist is called in. The psychiatrist emerges from the ordeal fit to be put in a strait jacket. Then a perspicacious Catholic abbé, who has secretly doubted the existence of God for many years, is summoned-and finds himself newly inspired with religious faith...