Word: ordeal
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...TIME: How did you survive this ordeal? SALINAS: I strengthened my family life. I tried to maintain my physical soundness through exercise, and then I wrote and wrote. You canot magine all the pages that I wrote to try to break this wall of silence that had been built against me. These were difficult times...
Though that awe-inspiring list of universities reeks of snobbery, the crowd was anything but elitist: People of all races, classes and social groups joined together and, like Shakespeare's "band of brothers," went through the same ordeal. First came the endless waiting in a single-file line: By the time we were allowed into the Marriott's conference room, the sun had set and the temperature dipped, and more than five students left the line in impatience...
...slightly weird, in any case, that presidential candidates have to submit to ordeal by Oprah. It makes one wonder whether it is George Bush who's dumb, or something in the culture...
...Hunter won the shot. The Aussies will be more polite. "I don't know if it will be fun, exactly," says Jones, having told the makeup artist she'll use her scrunchy because rubber bands ruin her hair. "It won't be an easy ordeal, but it should be exciting." She's about to find out. And, luckily...
...Hunter won the shot. The Aussies will be more polite. "I don't know if it will be fun, exactly," says Jones, having told the makeup artist she'll use her scrunchy because rubber bands ruin her hair. "It won't be an easy ordeal, but it should be exciting." She's about to find out. And, luckily...