Word: ordeal
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White Car. The dry prose of the court opinion could not reflect the long, emotional ordeal that began for Hurricane on a June night in 1966. Two black gunmen had stepped into a bar in Paterson, N.J., and almost immediately opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun and .32-cal. pistol, killing the bartender and two of three customers. Told that the killers had fled in a white car, police briefly stopped a white Dodge but let the occupants go when they recognized Carter, then a nationally ranked middleweight boxer who lived in Paterson. Later that night the Dodge...
Throughout the ordeal he expressed to Jack Walsh and others a deep concern for his workers, especially those who, like his son, had taken time off from school. For an extremely ambitious man who had never yet known defeat, it was not a bad performance...
...Sing, in which Presidential Candidate Wintergreen croons that "love is sweeping the country." To others, Carter summons the image of the plastic politician in the film Nashville who broadcasts but never appears onscreen. Yet to many others, he is a believable leader with eclectic policies. Carter welcomes the ordeal of the primaries because he knows he must prove himself. "I want to be tested in the most severe way," he says. "I want the American people to understand my character, my weaknesses, the kind of person...
...number of ex-P.O.W.s took a less sympathetic view of a coercion defense. Retired Air Force Colonel Quincy Collins, who was held prisoner in North Viet Nam for 7½ years, faced a North Vietnamese indoctrination program that seems far more concentrated and relentless than the ordeal Patty apparently underwent. But, he says, "if you were weak and really screwed up beforehand, you might go over." If she was in fact brainwashed, he says, it was due more to her indulgent parents than to her captors. "Her big problem," he suggests, "is her mommy and daddy," by which...
...Judge Carter turns down Browning on both issues, Patty's ordeal on the stand-during this trial at least -may be over. At week's end Bailey said he had not decided whether to call Patty for a redirect examination. "Redirect is to repair damage which has been done." The quote was pure Bailey: breezy, confident, and brushing aside the best efforts of Jim Browning during the long week of his own ordeal...