Word: sufferable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...East Cambridge has been overwhelmed by development. If East Cambridge or Alewife are excluded, the whole city will suffer," said Jon Baring-Gould, an East Cambridge resident...
...freedom is contradictory: there is no ghostly pre-conception "potential child" whose free will to exist must be respected. Basing identity on genes would represent the worst kind of identity politics--identities should not be protected above people, and eliminating Parkinson's disease is different from eliminating those who suffer from...
Alone, Thandiwe grew desperate. "I couldn't let my babies starve." One day she met a friend from school. "She told me she was a sex worker. She said, 'Why you suffer? Let's go to a place where we can get quick bucks.'" Thandiwe hangs her head. "I went. I was afraid. But now I go every night...
...gradually to lose some of this bone mass. Women ultimately give up between 30% to 50%, while men lose only 20% to 30%. Though mass loss in men is lower, it still makes us vulnerable to back pains and bone fractures. In fact, this year alone American men will suffer as many as half a million osteoporosis-related breaks, mostly in the spine, hip and wrist. These are not only painful and debilitating; thousands die each year from fracture-related complications...
...with fear in her heart for the great American whirl. It's Chenia's husband who's having the good time, romping with his mistress and trying to sue himself into a fortune with harebrained legal actions. Devorah remembers it all from a remove, after having grown up to suffer insults as her mother did and make some of her mother's mistakes. It's a small story the novel tells--but with sweetness and wisdom and affection--of how each generation sets sail anew for its own America, because landing and arriving aren't quite the same. --By Walter...