Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holiday & Amnesty. The day's ordeal had only just begun. The prince retired to change into white tie and tails and to grab a bite or two of a ham sandwich. Michi had her hair washed and reset, and, over a white and gold Western dress, for the first time donned the pearl-studded, golden Order of the Sacred Crown. At 2 p.m. the young couple officially reported the marriage to the Emperor and Empress. After exchanging cups of sake and going through the ritual of symbolic eating, the prince and his bride stepped into a rust-colored carriage...
...Force Alone. The British credited Khrushchev's change of manner to Macmillan's unruffled stand. The British have always insisted that they are good at this kind of talking, and Macmillan, fighting flu internally and Nikita's slings from without, went through his ordeal with unflagging style. In private he firmly conveyed to the Soviet leader the danger of misunderstanding the West's determination to remain in Berlin. In public he answered Khrushchev's call for a non-aggression pact by proposing that "our disputes should be settled by negotiation and not by force...
Beth Jacobs intends to keep trying, but she admits the job is hard. "Even unwed mothers," she sighs, "left to face their ordeal alone, would rather have had their fling and pay the price than be good spinsters with no love life...
Three Divinity students fell through thin ice on Mystic Lake while skating yesterday afternoon. The trio, John C. Lamberth 1D, Raymond S. Pinch, and Charles R. Gregg 1D, were not hospitalized and suffered no ill effects from the ordeal...
Anderson's ordeal was relatively gentle, but the martinettlesome admiral ambushed him with a request for his last two years' reading, by title and author. Poor Commander Anderson could only fumble up the title of one book, no author. Dispiritedly, he mailed in his reading list after he got home, just so Rickover would not think him "a total stupe." The list of 24 books won Rickover's respect and helped Anderson join NRB as a potential atomic sub commander...