Word: ordeal
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...last taboos for an insightful discussion of health policy. For the average reader, though, a treatise on toilets (or the lack thereof) can be simply too much to stomach. A series of articles was plenty on this topic; reading a whole book on the subject is an ordeal by ordure. Our advice: Flush...
...play-by-play recapitulation of the catastrophe of the 1930s. To be sure, we may be brewing our very own 21st century economic calamity. But if so, it will be altogether different in its sources, scale, severity and duration from the last century's ghastly, decade-long, globe-girdling ordeal. It is only the consequences that may be similar...
...Generally speaking, it’s safe to say that voting for college students is a genuine ordeal. Jetting home on Election Day is usually not an option, so we must either register to vote at college or vote absentee back home. This means worrying where our registration should be, navigating forms, deadlines, the occasional photocopy or notarization, and finally digging up the right address and that elusive 42-cent stamp...
...Many stayed because they were not up to the ordeal and uncertainties of evacuation," Williams continued. "It is hard to leave your home and everything you own, not knowing what you will return...
...Polly Watts will be spared that ordeal. That's partly because the 43-year-old remained in the city through Hurricane Katrina and learned lessons in getting back on her feet quickly. Despite the unrest that followed Katrina, she was able to quickly fix up her bar, the Avenue Pub, which sits on St. Charles Avenue. And so Watts chose to remain for Gustav as well. "Being here immediately after the damage is done gives you the ability to make temporary repairs," she says. "Had we evacuated, it might have taken us a month to get back into the city...