Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departed Liberals, kept his promise of a fair election. Compared to the preelection bloodshed, in which some 200 people were killed, the election went off with unexpected order. Seven men were killed on election day. When the results began coming in, mild-mannered Ospina Perez knew that his ordeal was not ended. The Liberals led by more than 100,000 votes. They again controlled both houses of Congress, but unofficial returns cut their lower house majority from 15 to eight. At week's end, the President still had to choose between inviting the Liberals back into his cabinet...
Sound trucks rolled through the streets, blaring out the news; the city's great ordeal was drawing to an end. Berlin's early skepticism thawed. The people finally realized that a victory had been...
...York Times's shrewd diplomatic correspondent, James Reston. Wrote Reston: "There are many ways in which a Secretary of State can present a treaty to the Senate but the best way is to tell the Senators everything. This astonishes them, then bores them stiff, and eventually minimizes the ordeal...
...more proof of Harvard's theoretical superiority is needed, there is the factor that the home crew has a physical advantage, both from knowing its own waters and being spared the ordeal of a long journey...
...second A-bomb used in war, much less publicized but far more powerful than the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, fell on Nagasaki (pop. 250,000). Last week, 3½ years after the city's fiery ordeal, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles paid it a visit. His report...