Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel quite so well as they emerged from the B'nai B'rith Building with cuts, bruises, shattered glasses and swollen eyes. They were greeted by the pealing of bells in a nearby church where many of their relatives had kept vigil. For these hostages, the ordeal had ended...
...seven from suburban Silver Spring, Md., was at work as an editorial assistant on the National Jewish Monthly Wednesday morning when she heard "stomping up the stairs" in the B'nai B'rith building. Here is her account, told to TIME Correspondent Marguerite Michaels, of the ordeal that followed...
Munch's roommate called the UHS later that day to relate the incidents of the night before. A nurse then asked the roommate to bring Munch to the UHS for further examination, but Munch decided she was feeling too poorly to "go through that ordeal again...
...Watergate behind us," Richard Nixon used to plead. Five years after the break-in at Democratic national headquarters, the ordeal is still not over for Watergate's walking wounded, although some of them found their condition eased last week...
Even after her liberation, the ordeal of Mme. Claustre continued to rankle in French public opinion. She and her husband, flown by a special Mystère 20 jet sent by Giscard, evaded hordes of newsmen in Paris. The couple immediately checked into a clinic for a series of intensive tests. But many Frenchmen were still asking why the affair had taken so long-and cost so much horror and humiliation-to resolve...