Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory. With his $350,000 winner's share of the purse (part of which will flow into the Soviet treasury), he can now relax with the chauffeured Mercedes, apartments in Moscow and Leningrad and other luxuries his chess title affords him. But he may soon face another ordeal: Bobby Fischer, who failed to defend the championship in 1975 after whomping Soviet Boris Spassky, was in Belgrade, reportedly looking for a tune-up match in preparation for challenging Karpov...
...after the end of World War II, was startled whenever Wilkinson began reminiscing about his days on a carrier in the South Pacific: it all seemed so long ago. Yet Wilkinson had no trouble joining in the team's revelry. He adroitly managed to get through the initiation ordeal known as the "Cardinal puff," in which the newcomer, well-stoked on beer, has to perform an elaborate ritual of hand movements...
Tommy Lee Hines is unaware of the publicity around him. The Hines family wants the ordeal to be over. Tommy doesn't speak much anymore. He just stares and grins...
...people at the wreckage, robbed them of their valuables, and finally cut them down with automatic weapons fire. From another hiding place, businessman Hans Hansen and his wife Diana could hear the victims crying, "Please don't shoot us!" as the firing began. Dazed by the ordeal, Hansen said later: "I'll never be able to get that moment out of my mind...
Veterans and neophytes alike need to be tough because they must face "the ground barrier." The ordeal begins when the passenger tries to telephone the reservations center. Either the line is busy or a recorded voice says reassuringly, "Your call is being automatically held..." And held and held. Waits of up to ten minutes are common and some are as much as 35 minutes. The volume of calls is up about 35% at most airlines, and each call lasts longer while the clerk figures out the lowest fare and plots the routes over which it is applied. One Eastern reservations...