Word: ordeal
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...least loud enough to stifle out the leaguing sounds of the mill's machines, which make conversation below a scream impossible, and the sensation of the blast furnace's heat, which would melt human flesh were it not for specially made suits that the workers facing the ordeal-wear...
...married. After Victoria's birth, she was arrested and subsequently sentenced to 25 years for espionage because of her relationship with the American officer. Her baby girl was sent to live with an aunt in remote Kazakhstan in Central Asia. Although Zoya now declines to dwell on her ordeal, she is well remembered by another ex-inmate of Stalin's prisons and camps, Alexander Dolgun, who now lives in Maryland. A former U.S. embassy clerk who was kidnaped by the Soviet secret police in 1948 and freed only in 1956, Dolgun spent years in the same vast concentration...
...again, not on crass and specific racial grounds but over the once bloody, somehow romantic battlegrounds of history. Buffs dragged their children in Yankee or Rebel caps over the cemetery farm land of Gettysburg, fast growing commercial. Book clubs offered multivolume histories such as Allan Kevins' The Ordeal of the Union and Carl Sandburg's grandiloquent Abraham Lincoln. Catton, with his 13 volumes, became the distinguished popularizer of the Civil War, his work deeply researched and written with a vivid immediacy...
...many of the refugees, the ordeal is made more difficult by memories of the paradise that has been lost. Before last summer's upheaval, the island, which is carpeted with citrus groves and vineyards, exported lemons, oranges, grapes and wines to Europe. It produced automotive parts for Middle Eastern countries, and its beaches lured 250,000 tourists a year. By the early 1970s, Cyprus was one of the eastern Mediterranean's most prosperous nations, with a per capita income of $1,460, and there was virtually no unemployment. Even the long-festering animosity between Greek and Turkish Cypriots...
Ehrlichman survived his ordeal in slightly better shape than had either Mitchell or Haldeman, mainly because he did not try to evade the implications of Nixon's taped words. He conceded that Nixon had wanted him to prepare a report on Watergate that was "less than the truth," and had asked him to take on other "improper" tasks. As for tapes that also incriminated Ehrlichman, he had ingenuous explanations. When he said "uh hum" or "yeah, yeah" to Nixon on the tapes, for example, he was "fending" Nixon off about cover-up acts, not expressing agreement. Moreover, he claimed...