Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Byrnes displayed staunch faith in MacArthur. According to obviously inspired dispatches from his headquarters, MacArthur was ready to step out if a really controlling control council should move in on Tokyo. No such thing being yet in sight, he calmly continued the ordeal which Japan must undergo before she can re-enter the comity of nations...
Because she appears more frequently than the other players, Ginger Rogers at tracts the most attention, as a super-tense film celebrity whose, fame & fortune has brought her nothing but loneliness. But there are half a dozen other competent performers who plow their way through this three-day ordeal in the rooms and corridors of Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...This modern Malaprop steals the show with his classic but chering of the King's English, and his latest crack about Duffy and his money--"That guy, if he can't take it with him to Heaven, positively won't go!"--more than atones for the rest of the ordeal...
...Lord's Prayer and for half an hour, while Philips listened, delivered a eulogy of the young gunner, prayed again for his fellow Catholic and then gently, easily - so wasted was the body - pushed it over board. Zamperini and Philips floated on into the sixth week of their ordeal...
Prisoners of War. One ordeal was over. The fishermen treated them decently. And when Zamperini and Philips were delivered to the base at Wotje, Japs there also treated them decently. But when they were moved again to Kwajalein, another ordeal began...