Word: ordeal
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...professor at Harvard since 1949, Bailyn--or "But," as he is known to friends--has written or edited more than a dozen books documenting the history of the American revolutionary and colonial eras. One book, "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution," won a Pulitzer Prize: another. "The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson," won a National Book Award...
...news from Lebanon was the number of Marines lost, the gross body count. But for more than 200 sets of loved ones, the Beirut explosion was only incidentally a massacre; for them, one particular casualty-the son, husband, brother, buddy-made the week's bad news an ordeal. The families and friends of four victims spoke with TIME last week...
...each other "like bookends," Rippy says. When talking about themselves both end up talking excitedly about the team, the prospects for the season, and about each other. As Rippy says, "The Harvard cross country team is more than just a running experience. It is personal too--going through an ordeal with your friends and hopefully coming out a winner...
Hawkins' ordeal began last January when a man and woman entered his tiny grocery store in the crime-ridden heart of Watts. The two pulled out guns, took $140 in cash and $50 in food stamps, and fled. Hawkins, who had been robbed half a dozen times in the past, followed them outside and, in an exchange of gunfire, dropped the woman with a bullet in the head. She survived and, with her companion, went to jail...
...took tremendous personal courage for the victims of this case to come forward in such a hostile environment. They have risked a great deal, in the hope that others will not have to suffer the same ordeal...