Word: suffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest evils from which a country can suffer are foreign control and Communism," His Majesty has said, only to add darkly: "If Persia had to choose between the two I should be the first to put myself at the head of a Communist army...
...plotting the destruction of your business. You seem to forget that both ... are instrumentalities of the people of the United States." If Mr. Groesbeck takes T. V. A.'s offer, his bondholders would get about 90¶ on the dollar. If he leaves it, Tennessee Public Service will suffer such cut-rate competition from a municipal system at Knoxville that bondholders would be lucky to get anything. No matter what his decision is, an important precedent for all future public-ownership programs in the Tennessee Valley will be created...
...Congress also required the President to give "reasonable public notice" before making tariff agreements. This put an end to the possibility of swift and secret negotiations, without the howls and whines of industries about to suffer a tariff cut. The word "reasonable," however, looked like a joker. By adroitly interpreting it the President might start his negotiations in secret and postpone to the last minute that noisy period in which "any interested person may present his views...
...society, economics and world affairs unknown to his predecessors. In 1914 the War crept on a college generation unaware. All the senior of 1924 had to worry about was which job to take. The undergraduate of 1934 knows where the next war may come, and why, and who will suffer by it. He is grimly determined that if the world has no place for him, the world and not he will have to change...
Hair combings to be burned, to prevent a bird from finding them and building them into a nest. Otherwise the careless comber will suffer headaches until the fledglings leave the hair-woven nest...