Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another book on the War between the States has appeared, to remind Americans that their greatest war is still the one fought in America between Americans. The Beleaguered City is a sometimes lively, sometimes somber, always exciting description of the Confederate capital during its four-year ordeal as the symbol of victory to both North and South...
...Richmond's ordeal came in siege, smoke and fire. But before fire came hunger. In the ever more crowded hospitals, "a fat rat, planked and broiled, came to be recognized as a delicacy by the male nurses and orderlies." Before the end, even the rats had disappeared from Richmond's streets...
...Governor Caldwell did not say the shooting saved a lot of trouble. He did observe that the ordeal-by-open-court for victims of rape was a problem "society has not found a solution...
...Commander Moloney saw 500 natives who had been thoroughly bombed, shot at, and finally driven to live like animals in caves. Some of the maimed had raw wounds alive with maggots. All suffered from malnutrition, skin diseases, lice. Yet of the 500 who had been through a nerve-shattering ordeal that drove many a Jap to suicide and many a G.I. into the mental ward, only one Okinawan cracked up.-Psychiatrist Moloney, in the current Psychiatry, jumped to a long conclusion. He figured that Okinawans get a good psychological start in life. Until an Okinawan baby is three, his mother...
...laughed loudest at the White Russians, the fugitives from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Then in a swamping human surf came the fugitives from Spain. Czechoslovakia, the Low Countries, France. All of them bore, like a leper's bell, the one ineffaceable possession left them by their ordeal-the mood of quiet desperation, quiet, because its very existence threatened the peace of mind of those who still felt secure; quiet, because who can really convey an experience to one who has not suffered it before...