Word: ordeal
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Like everyone else, I am relieved that there was no loss of life during O'Grady's ordeal and rescue. However, I agree with the captain in asking for recognition for the many other pilots and service personnel who continue to put their lives on the line for the U.N. peacekeeping effort. What kind of role model is the media presenting to pilots who have the skill-and good fortune-to keep their jets intact and continue flying the same dangerous missions day after day? Get shot down, and you too can have lunch with the President? Alan Cardenas Breckenridge...
...Grady is yet another victim of the media, which are trying to make a profit from his ordeal. You have pushed him into playing the role of hero, but deep inside he realizes he is not one and is being used. We have lost perspective on what a true hero is. We have many of them, quite a few unrecognized -- especially our veterans from Vietnam. Peter Bruchhausen New York City...
With all the attention O'Grady is getting, let us not forget the thousands of U.N. peacekeepers and the civilians caught in this war. With all due respect to Captain Scott O'Grady, these troops are in no way less heroic because their ordeal will last not merely for six days but for as long as this war continues. Shawn Tan Singapore...
...both involve punishment that threatens the human condition. But the question of chain gangs should generate more attention because of one important distinction. Victims of the death penalty cannot complain of their pain, but the cruelty of forced labor is shockingly evident--its victims live to testify to their ordeal...
Less boppy students will describe orientationweek as an "ordeal," or at least call it "weird."They find the placement tests too challenging,idiotic and numerous, and the ice-breaker eventstoo shallow. Thehi-what's-your-name-where-are-you-from-what's-your-dorm-well-nice-to-meet-you mantra growsold very quickly, and the days become a blur ofcookouts, sweaty parties and fierce scamming...