Word: sufferance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...merely understand a foreigner speaking the language, or read a newspaper, give a short talk about the U.S., write a letter? Can you drive a tractor, run a bulldozer, handle surveyor's tools, operate a power boat, use radio equipment? Are you on any special diets? Do you suffer from allergies? How well do you really know the country in which you would like to serve...
...been proved in the South that public funds cannot support two separate but equal school systems. Both systems suffer...
...clear patterns about where anxiety develops. It is greatest where change is swiftest. Children are not very susceptible to it; their problems of adjustment are normal for their age (adolescents show confusing symptoms). Anxiety is most apparent in the 20-to-40 age group. These youngish adults may not suffer from it more than their elders, but they talk more about it. In any case, they are the most active and mobile members of society, constantly making decisions, changing jobs or moving to new locations. From 40 to 70, anxiety is usually better controlled or concealed. Above 70, it breaks...
Almost anything Mij got his paws on he put in his mouth. He once chewed up a razor blade in his powerful, crab-cracking jaws, seemed to suffer no ill effects. In the country he liked to sneak up behind a cow, take a snap at her tail and sit grinning as she furiously kicked up her heels. He also displayed a peculiar passion for nipping every ear lobe that came within his appallingly elastic range. And once, when Maxwell tried to take an eel away from him, Mij effortlessly bit clean through his hand. "He let go almost...
...center's first problem is winning the people's trust. Sicilians are not apathetic, Dolci insists, or if they are, one has to define their kind of apathy: "they suffer like all human beings, and know that they are suffering, but they do not believe that change is possible." In one village, an agriculturist came and persuaded some of the less suspicious farmers to let him use a few worn-out fields for demonstration plots. He grew vegetables and fruit, instead of the Sicilian grain. "The first year, the people thought he was crazy, but then they saw his yields...