Word: ordeal
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...sometimes a mood is missed. Returning from the garden party which was Eliza's trial by fire, Higgins and his companion Colonel Pickering are filled with the nervous energy of expectation instead of the self-satisfied exhaustion they should be feeling after the successful ordeal they shared. But ironically even this weakness ends up working in favor of the production. This Pygmalion links its audience to the lack of connection between the classes in this age. It is as though, instead of having tried to make real contact with the poor, the actors, like the middle class philanthropists they...
After a 110-hour ordeal, a dramatic eleven-minute rescue...
...Disguised as mechanics, the commandos scouted the aircraft and helped put aboard food, water, medicine, and even a birthday cake for one of the stewardesses, Annemarie Staringer, 28. Hijackers and hostages shared the cake in what passengers later said was the only moment of cordiality during the five-day ordeal...
...Scoop and that masterpiece of World War II, the Sword of Honour trilogy, established him as one of the century's finest satirists. The Diaries underscore just how closely Waugh's fiction followed his life, from high jinks at public school to the hallucinations chronicled in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold...
Lance referred to his Washington ordeal only by indirection and with some country Georgia jokes about plucked chickens and soon-to-be-slaughtered lambs. He told of the elderly woman who picked out a chicken at a meat market, peered under its wings, poked its breast and tested its thighs, then rejected it. Complained the butcher: "Lady, I don't think you could pass a test like that." Lance also told of a zoo visitor who was pleased at seeing a lamb and a lion sharing a pen and praised the zookeeper for fulfilling the biblical prophecy that natural...