Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morale is high among the workers. Houser said, citing the example of two nurses who had gone through a 19 day ordeal in an open boat after their ship half been sunk, but who had completely recovered and were back at work in a couple of days...
...came out of Mem Hall after your signatory ordeal feeling that you had wasted your fin (a quid to you limeys) on a Student Council donation, rest easy; it won't be wasted...
...making the Pope much more truly "the Prisoner of the Vatican" than his predecessors were from 1870 to 1929. The Vatican radio and the Vatican daily Osservatore Romano are now on an almost exclusive diet of non-controversial items. If Hitler wins, Pius XII may face as unpleasant an ordeal as Pius VII, whom Napoleon hustled away from Rome and kept a prisoner in France from...
None of the students at Wilkes-Barre had ever done manual labor; one boy was so alarmed by the unknown ordeal that he prepared himself with typhoid injections. They live in the 150-year-old house of a retired Wyoming Valley lawyer-farmer. They pay $50 (some have scholarships) for the four-week session, for food, staff salaries, etc. Camp director is young (32), pipe-smoking Edward Wright, teacher (Fieldston School), New York City Republican reform politician (he ran for the City Council last year). On his staff are a medical student, who looks after campers' hurts, an educational...
...year. ..." Winston Churchill paused. He was pale and tired-looking, and his delivery this day was strangely halting; but his words were measured as he held his head up and said to his British colleagues: "He may at any time attempt the invasion of this island. That is an ordeal from which we shall not shrink." He paused again. Then, for ears not in London but in Ankara, which last week suddenly became capital of the realm of anxiety, he said: "At the present moment he is driving fast through the Balkans and at any moment he may turn upon...