Word: suffer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...satya (truth) and agraha (insistence). Gandhi's passion for truth was evident from the beginning of his life. Truth, he once wrote, "became my sole objective." The only way to approach that objective was through love. Evil must always be opposed, but not by making the evildoer suffer. Rather, one must influence the evildoer to change his ways by undergoing suffering oneself-even, if need be, unto death...
...Before she left she gave a little party (strawberry shortcake) for her friends at the hospital, and received the press. Her plans? Perhaps she would write a book, maybe go back to schoolteaching, but she intended "to serve the Russian people by telling Americans of the hardships the Russians suffer under Soviet dictatorship." And "I would be proud if I could become an American citizen." As for returning to Russia: "Never, never ... I want to be in America and no place else ... I have no fears of the future...
Football Czar Oscar Nicolini (who is also Argentina's director of Post & Telegraphs) was no man to suffer such a rebuke in silence. Promptly he called a meeting of the powerful governing body, AFA (Asociación de Futbol Argentina'). To teach the players a stern lesson, AFA voted to wash out the rest of the season...
There is one school of thought which believes that Brown teams suffer a sense of claustrophobia when they play in the Stadium...
University officials point out that the Dining Halls have fewer ptomaine outbreaks than any restaurant in the Boston area. Ptomaine, however, is not a relative thing. One epidemic is one too many. It seems little more than ironic that the Dining Halls should point with pride while 1000 undergraduates suffer from dysentery...