Word: ordeal
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...bullhorns, they announced to terrified residents that they were Israelis, and demanded that the Palestinians assemble in the street. Some heeded the call, while others were forced from their homes at gunpoint. The wailing, screaming throng was in a state of collective hysteria. Said one man who survived the ordeal: "We knew what they had been doing in Shatila. We were sure our time had come." The militiamen fired into the air several times in an attempt to restore order; at one point, they also ordered the crowd to clap hands in unison to halt the wailing...
...remaining hospital staff was taken out of the camp and after an interrogation was turned over to Israeli soldiers across the street from Shatila. Soon the Palestinian civilians who had been rounded up in Sabra began following them. But these had one last ordeal to face. As the crowd of several hundred panicky refugees approached the southern gate of Shatila, the militiamen segregated them by sex. The men were ordered to march past a parked Land Rover. From inside the vehicle, a man pointed out those who should be separated from the rest. The selected ones were led away. Their...
...then the ordeal of Shatila was over. The camps now were quiet, except for the mourning of those who had discovered the bodies of their relatives among the dead. The first Lebanese Army soldiers, handkerchiefs over their mouths, entered Shatila to see what had gone on. One soldier looked up an alleyway where many bodies lay and ran back, vomiting...
...answer resounded through the new hall like a message from Olympus. After nearly two decades, Fleisher, once acclaimed the most talented pianist of his generation, had returned to the ranks. If at times he seemed a bit too rushed, eager to get through what must have been an ordeal as well as a triumph, the clarity and intelligence of his pianism were unmistakable...
...long Swiss ordeal began when four men carrying suitcases walked calmly into the Polish embassy. Once inside the building, they suddenly pulled out submachine guns that were hidden in their luggage. Trapping a total of 14 people inside the embassy, the militants declared that they were carrying 55 lbs. of dynamite, which they threatened to explode within 48 hours unless their demands were met. Vowed the leader of the band, who identified himself as Colonel Wysocki (after a 19th century Polish national hero): "We are prepared...