Word: ordeal
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...Faculty's action this week to make variable the fixed terms accorded to assistant and associate professors might serve to make the ordeal, though still fraught with insecurity, a little more pleasant...
...glad to be rid of the kooks," says a close Wallace aide. "We were never comfortable with that crowd. We may have been segregationists at one time, but we weren't crazy. They didn't fit well at all with the Governor's new image." The ordeal of his paralysis seems to have mellowed Wallace, now 54. He does not even bear a grudge against his would-be assassin. "I hope he's a new man now," says Wallace. "I've forgiven...
...subject of these worshipful encomiums was Imperial Army Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, 52, Japan's last-known World War II straggler, who had finally been persuaded to surrender on the remote Philippine island of Lubang. For many Japanese, Onoda's ordeal seemed to strike a more responsive emotional chord than that of Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, another wartime Rip van Winkle, who returned from his hideout on Guam two years ago (TIME, Feb. 7, 1972). Yokoi had remained in hiding because he was afraid, and did not know that the war was over...
...morning after his kidnapers had released him, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy was haggard and tired. Because his wrists had been bound during much of his 49-hour ordeal, one hand was still numb. But he was a newsman with a story. So he sat down and wrote a 4,000-word account of what it had been like in captivity. The Associated Press immediately moved the story on its national wire in time to make Sunday editions round the country...
...power of Jack Nicklaus-but none of the accuracy. Far, far away, the ball hit the roof of a private home. After half a dozen more errant drives, course officials set a limit of twelve strokes per hole and charitably awarded Harris a mere triple bogey for his ordeal. "This isn't my game," he muttered...