Word: ordeal
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...best-selling author, says the settlement lets his clients avoid a trial that would require them to relive memories of a "dead mother on the floor for 11 days, rotting in the sun, and a dead boy out in back in the woodshed." Meanwhile, the FBI was spared the ordeal of facing an Idaho jury that might well have awarded the Weavers even more money, to say nothing of what could have been weeks of squirming testimony on Court TV. At FBI headquarters, morale has tanked. Even during the darkest days of Watergate, says a morose agent, "we were...
...People v. O.J. Simpson has proved to be a trial by ordeal for almost everyone, including reporters. At the center of TIME's trial-coverage team are Elaine Lafferty, who has covered the case since the day after the murders, and Jim Willwerth, who started reporting when the trial began in January. Both have been consumed by the case as it unfolds in the courtroom as well as in the world outside. Senior editor Lee Aitken, who supervises TIME's O.J. coverage, compares the assignment to an overseas posting: "Jim and Elaine have immersed themselves so totally in the language...
...strong exception to her version of the event." The Senator added, "It's not in my nature to lob personal attacks, and I'm doing my best to keep a lid on my powder." Meanwhile, he has continued to deny rumors that he will soon end the Senate's ordeal by resigning. "I have found my colleagues willing to wait until the Ethics Committee is done and we see the report. They're much less inclined than the press to judge until they know all the facts," Packwood said...
...into families of another race," says Smolowe, "I had to work hard to separate the reporting from my feelings." Senior editor Lee Aitken, whose daughter Sophie, 4, was adopted in Bulgaria, argues that in stories like this, firsthand experience can make for better journalism. "At some point, the adoption ordeal always brings you face-to-face with your most basic values," says Aitken. "You have to be very honest with yourself, and Jill knew that instinctively...
Thus did Nagasaki enter history, an afterthought on the day of its ordeal and ever since a footnote: the second city to be hit by an atomic bomb. Fat Man exploded 1650 ft. above the city of some 240,000 people on the western coast of Kyushu at 11:02 on the morning of Aug. 9. In many ways, the event was a carbon copy of the horrors of Hiroshima: flash, heat, blast, radiation; permanent shadows cast by bombshine; thirsty, mortally burned people, emerging from the smoke and dust, trailing strips of their skin behind them. Some in Nagasaki...