Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passos was conscious of the strain and fatigue of the workmen, the ordeal of learning new skills, rediscovering forgot ten ones. He was more conscious than most of the contrasts of the new America, the litter and dirt, social as well as physical, and the beauty of the old towns, the electrifying wonder of the new industrial creations. Once he stood under the columned porch of a New England building watching the noontime traffic. Across the street a church steeple rose in the murky winter light. There was the smell of burning leaves in the air, the chatter of starlings...
...have no essential work from leaving London. . . . Children are already being sent out of the danger areas. This battle may be a somewhat lengthy affair . . . but I am sure of one thing-that London will never be conquered and will never fail, and that her renown, triumphing over every ordeal, will long shine among...
...with his cigaret holder to emphasize his points. At his press conferences Mr. King usually sits Buddha-like with his hands folded on his lap, seldom lifts his voice above a dreary drone. Curtin welcomed questions, answered directly and enjoyed the session. Mr. King finds a press conference an ordeal, resents questions, seldom answers them directly...
...must therefore pick my way among heated plowshares, and in this ordeal the only guides are singleness of purpose and a good, or at any rate, well trained conscience...
Gestapo Chief Wilhelm Rediess decided to change his tactics. He told his bullies to skip the traditional cooling off period, the hours when the weak collapse through fear, but the strong steel themselves for the coming ordeal. His Gestapomen went to work immediately with clubs, pipe-lengths, supple whips...