Word: ordeal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nations and kick off a parley to redraft Europe's military map. -- Greece's embattled Papandreou fights back against an accuser. -- A journey into the heart of El Salvador's guerrilla war. -- American journalist Terry Anderson begins his fifth year of captivity in Beirut: a look at his tragic ordeal...
...Adams' ordeal began during Thanksgiving weekend in 1976, when 16-year-old David Harris offered him a lift. The two spent the day tooling around Dallas, ending up at a drive-in. Adams claims that Harris dropped him off at his motel around 10 p.m. Harris testified that they left the drive-in about midnight, with Adams driving Harris' stolen car. When police officer Robert Wood pulled the car over, Harris said, Adams pulled out a .22 pistol and fired five shots into the policeman. (It was later learned that Harris had previously stolen the weapon...
...doctor, I feel one should go where one is needed," says Dr. Swee Ang, 40, a physician from Singapore who was working at the Sabra refugee camp for Palestinians in Beirut at the time of the 1982 massacre by Phalangist militiamen. After surviving the ordeal, she returned to Britain to marshal support for the Palestinians before resuming work at Bourj al-Barajneh, another refugee camp in Beirut. "I'd seen how the Palestinians had suffered," she says, "and to abandon them after that and not do something would have been a crime...
LIKE any case of unfair treatment against a minority group, the only way to completely eradicate bias against gays and lesbians is education. The Hampton controversy has one bright spot--it has received nationwide media coverage, showing the country the daily ordeal gays and lesbians must endure in their ordinary lives...
...order to testify, Nussbaum, 46, was forced to come to terms with the horror of her ordeal. Originally police charged her, along with Steinberg, with second-degree murder. Prosecutors dropped the charge after becoming convinced she had been so battered psychologically and physically that she could not have participated in beating Lisa. After months of intensive psychiatric care, Nussbaum agreed to testify for the prosecution. On the eve of her testimony, Nussbaum made what her psychiatrist calls a "final declaration of independence" by slapping Steinberg with a $3 million lawsuit for the decade of abuse she allegedly suffered...