Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters will have returned to the real world by now, after their brief moment in the polling place. Although many may not realize it, it was for them that great forces moved in the campaign. The candidates, the workers, the staff, the reporters--all devoted themselves in an insane ordeal spanning months for the sake of fifteen minutes of time in a curtained booth. After the intensity of commitment to that ordeal by the candidates and their followers, perhaps the voters should have suspected, more than they did, that something important was at stake...
...surprise to learn that Dean was on the verge of writing the famous phony report ordered by Nixon in which the young counsel would show that no one at the White House was guilty of cover-up crimes. Dean's wife, who suffered a breakdown during the ordeal, objected. As Dean described the report he was to write, Mo had asked: "That's not true, though, is it" "No, it's not." "Then, John, you shouldn't write that report. That's not very smart." Recalls Dean, in two incriminating sentences: "She was right...
...there is a hero, it is Ruth, the only character whom we can admire. She goes through her ordeal bravely, trying to maintain her marriage, her family and her sanity, and succeeds to the point of knowing at the end that she doesn't really need the marriage at all. She is alone in her growth; the others stagnate or deteriorate. Jerry, unable to make his move out of Eden, dreams of proposing to Sally; Sally degenerates into a shrew; and Richard is doomed to perpetual unhappiness, neurotically in love with a woman who despises...
...largely covered by his federal medical insurance), a month or more of convalescence-he should be able to resume his political career. Except for the pouch, the navel-to-pubis scar and the virtually inevitable impotence that results from such surgery, Humphrey will have few reminders of his ordeal on the operating table. He will be able to eat whatever he wants, work vigorously and even engage in such noncontact sports as golf or tennis...
...manager take out full-page ads in Musical America, the promotional magazine featuring young and upcoming musicians who are relatively fresh faces in the music world. The New York Times reported last week that Horowitz was more concerned whether fans would show up, than with the actual Korvette's ordeal, and expressed concern the night before that it might rain...