Word: ordeal
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...almost wry smile that I replied when I was eventually asked, “Did you get it in writing?” That one telling question confirmed the unfortunate suspicion—later explicitly confirmed—that I had had throughout the latter part of the ordeal: namely, that I had neither rights nor recourse in the matter. When it comes to coursework faculty, apparently, cannot fail...
...full year after his ordeal, Case has regained all of the weight he lost and says his leg strength is right back where it was before the surgery. But even with the recovery, he knew coming into this season it would be nearly impossible to unseat a kicker who had distinguished himself as the best in the league...
...have broken out between survivors and the families of those who died, with allegations of cowardice sprayed on walls and lives ruined by whispering campaigns. Lidia Tsaliyeva, the school's 73-year-old principal, has been a main target. Fellow hostages say she played a heroic role during the ordeal, but others have made her into an accomplice of the terrorists; graffiti scrawled on a wall in the village calls her a "murderer...
...promote. Two illegal immigrants from El Salvador took possession last week of a 70-acre Arizona ranch as part of a civil judgment against a vigilante leader who allegedly threatened them with a gun when he caught them sneaking into the U.S. in March 2003. The immigrants said the ordeal left them with posttraumatic stress, a condition that seems to be spreading fast on the Mexico-U.S. boundary. To wit: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano declared a state of emergency last week because, she said, "the Federal Government has failed" to secure the border. Three days earlier, fellow Democratic Governor...
...rescue the marooned sailors, and Gasa and Kumana went along for the ride. "As we left Rendova, the Marines began singing 'Jesus loves me, this I know,'" recalls Gasa. "The PT boat was so fast it felt as if we were flying in the air." Six days after their ordeal began, the sailors were plucked from the island...