Word: ordeal
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...West European capitals, normally accessible diplomats became uncharacteristically secretive. Washington buzzed with rumors, but the White House banned all official speculation, and Jimmy Carter urged the nation "to guard against excessive optimism." Though such caution was certainly warranted, there was mounting evidence from all quarters that the long, cruel ordeal might finally be coming to an end for the 50 Americans being held hostage by militant Iranian youths at the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the three Americans being detained at the Foreign Ministry...
...West Germany. A team of doctors and psychiatrists, some of whom had treated G.I.s captured by the North Vietnamese, was being assembled last week. They will thoroughly examine the 53 released Americans for symptoms of what is feared might be substantial physical and mental injuries resulting from their long ordeal...
...years, critics have also argued that the test fails to measure the skills that a lawyer really needs. More recently, the exam has been indicted for discrimination against minorities. The only agreement about the test, apparently, is that it is an ordeal. In virtually all states, applicants spend six hours on one day trying to answer 200 tricky multiple-choice questions drawn up by the National Conference of Bar Examiners with the help of the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. The applicants then write essays in response to a series of legal questions, which vary from state to state...
...conclusion. Pacino emerges from the close, dark den on Christopher St. into the airy, white space of his girlfriend's apartment. Having finally shed his leather garb, he shaves, staring at his image in the ubiquitous mirror, confronting his self a last time, peeling away his homosexual mask. His ordeal has ended, the beast has been crushed, he is again normal...
...last night of our ordeal I was descending the north slope, numbed and passionless, drugged with fatigue, dead on my feet, when I heard someone singing! It was a rough voice, husky yet powerful. A cluster of mortar bombs came crashing down and I threw myself into the mud. When I could hear again, the first sound that came to me was the singing voice. Cautiously I raised myself just as a star shell burst overhead, and saw him coming toward me through that blasted wasteland...