Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each month, from beleaguered Changchun and Mukden, 140,000 people press through the opposing military lines and cruel no man's land toward Tientsin, Peiping and the hope of a living. The distance they cover is upwards of 800 miles. The ordeal they undergo, as culled from my own observation in Manchuria and North China and from the press in Nanking, would need a Tu Fu to compass...
...Ordeal of Mr. Sigler. The Michigan delegation sat in indecision and suspense, looking to Sigler and National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield for advice. They began waving their hands at Sigler, who stood like a man transfixed. He had only minutes to make up his mind. Connecticut was ready to break for Dewey. Where the hell was Baldwin, so Sigler could talk to him? Trapped in a pack of sweating pages, newsmen, photographers and delegates crowding the aisles, Sigler could not move. James Powers, a Michigan delegate and Detroit auto dealer, grabbed Sigler's arm and shouted...
Most U.S. readers know what an ordeal the revolution was in the U.S.; few of them know what it meant to the British Empire. At its beginning, the British viewed it as a minor dispute. They believed that the colonists could not fight, that the people were not deeply hostile, that the trouble would end once the ringleaders were rounded up, and that a deep love of the old country persisted despite the increasingly bitter battles...
Hutchison began his ordeal by hops Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock. At 5:15 o'clock, finishing his fifth quart, he told admirers he was feeling marvelous. At 5:20 o'clock, finding himself unable to fulfill the conditions of the bet, he tactfully withdrew...
Norway's Nansen let his famed Fram "drift" (in winter it was locked in the ice) for three icy years, to test the vagaries of polar currents, emerged from the ordeal with two strong conclusions: "I have never before understood what a magnificent invention soap really is"; "Oh, how tired I am! ... Why should we always make so much of truth? Life is more than cold truth, and we live but once...