Word: ordeals
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...procession are in for a good show. The freshly diploma'd dottore is stripped, trussed and propped on a bench. He must then deliver a long, excruciatingly embarrassing ode written by his friends. For every misread word, the grad swigs booze and gets pelted with eggs and flour. The ordeal ends when the ode is affixed to the university walls for all to see. No pomp here. And therein lies the secret to Padua: It's more than willing to share its charms, but you need to know where to look...
...ordeal influenced her thoughts on colleges, she says “not very much...
...Only Erica did research on ‘tribidism,’ which it turns out is the scientific name for dry-humping. Our assignment was on Jane Austen’s Emma. What a freak! I’d say anything to escape that physical and psychological ordeal.” Baraka then renounced his citizenship on WHRB?...
...when the Hanssen ordeal thrust his personal role as a spiritual leader into the public eye, it made sense that Bucciarelli would keep a low proifle. As talking heads debated whether clerical law should protect a Catholic priest from being interviewed by the FBI, Bucciarelli took refuge at Elmbrook, an Opus Dei center in Cambridge, where only one journalist dared seek him out (a pesky New York Times reporter whom Bucciarelli calls “courteous” despite his “uncalled-for” intrusion...
...Chen, though, the ordeal of making To Live is Better Than To Die paid off. He fell into the project while shooting a health show for Wuhan TV, when he met a doctor caring for AIDS victims. On the doctor's recommendation, Chen visited the Ma home in 2001. But before he had finished filming, police arrived and hauled Chen and other reporters down to the station, where they were held for nearly 24 hours. Chen gave his tiny digital video tapes to another reporter, who smuggled them out in hotel soapboxes she had in her purse...