Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four hijackers have been captured and are standing near the ramp in handcuffs, shouting the familiar slogans of the Cretin Liberation Movement. The hostages-just released after five harrowing days aboard the airliner-are distressed, but not because of their ordeal. "They were very courteous, very humanitarian, " says Marta Dome of her captors. "Once they let me go to the bathroom. "Declares Bertha Nation, who was slapped around: "Any fair-minded American would have to admit that the Cretin people have been driven to this." Egret Birdsnoot has no hard feelings about his injury: "It was just...
...summer as an amateur gold miner in the High Sierras of Northern California produced more muscles, more sober thoughts and a net profit of 80?. The next stop on his pilgrimage, college, was less of an ordeal. Still, despite his being a leading campus socialist at the University of Minnesota-a protester against the ROTC, a spark of the Jacobin Club and a charter member of the "first American student movement"-Sevareid could write a dozen years later: "I remember only struggle . . . emotional exhaustion...
...race to Entebbe. Says United Artists Production Boss Michael Medavoy: "I have serious reservations about capitalizing on a news story like that. It cheapens everybody." That criticism notwithstanding, at least one project offers hope of exceptional accuracy: Merv Griffin Productions' Odyssey of 139, which will focus on the ordeal of the hostages rather than the derring-do of the rescue. Reason: Griffin President Murray Schwartz was aboard the hijacked plane and was among the group of hostages released prior to the Israeli rescue mission...
...public Pat Nixon projected a stiff, almost plastic image-one that served well to conceal her inner anguish. Intimates say it also obscured a warmth and liveliness enjoyed only by those who knew her offstage. Yet her ordeal was obviously great as her husband, in the twilight of his presidency, lied to the public-and apparently even to his family-about the Watergate cover-up and was forced out of office. Most humiliating in more recent days was the Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein description of a cold Nixon marriage, her consideration of divorce in 1962, her seeking solace in drink...
...issues get beclouded by all these other things. But fairness and justice shouldn't be sacrificed on the altar of speed." Frank Cox, who has been defending one of the San Quentin Six, has had little time or energy to reflect on the wider ramifications of his ordeal. Anxiously anticipating the trial's end, he says wearily, "I feel like I've got a parole date...