Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophic drama, as a Job for today, J.B. is an effort of a sort and size rare in today's U.S. theater. MacLeish has confessed that Job's awful ordeal alone matches, for him, the mass sufferings of modern life (see RELIGION). And J.B. becomes a far more relevant contemporary figure if seen, not as an individual, but as a symbol of persecuted multitudes...
Sunrise at Campobello. Franklin D. Roosevelt's toughest years of personal ordeal-from the day he contracted polio at Campobello to the day he nominated Al Smith for the presidency. In TORONTO...
...nine years ago to break the city's segregated housing patterns, are now known as "Dynamite Hill." The $18,000 home of the Negro woman who had won the lawsuit was torn by a dynamite blast days after the court decision. And many years, many blasts later, the ordeal turned to terror one night last July when three whites drove onto Dynamite Hill, tossed one bomb at a Negro home, lobbed another at the home of a white family that was talking about selling to Negroes. The police eventually got all three; one was convicted last week...
...suddenly in the last half century millions of Americans have become convinced that they or their children will only be pseudo-adults without a four-year apprenticeship to these same scholars. College is well on its way to becoming an industrial puberty rite, complete with its ordeal by terror (the examination) and its ritualized search for a vision by means of self-torture (5000 word papers written...
...that he is "the symbol of the soul of France and the unbreakable integrity of her spirit in adversity." Churchill said all this in English, recalling that in wartime he had often spoken to Frenchmen in their own language, but now did not "wish to subject you to the ordeal of darker and sterner days...