Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most often caused by pressure to conform. "This is compounded by her own guilts and anxieties-guilt over her own shortcomings and her earlier history. Marrying a minister doesn't wipe out either her past or her thoughts." In the view of a Boston psychiatrist, ministers' wives suffer most from a feeling of "abandonment." Several of his patients are up to their ears in church work, using it as a substitute for a personal need that is not fulfilled by busy, distant husbands...
...Treasury's most persistent arguments against depreciation liberalization is the immediate loss in corporate tax revenues that it would suffer. But in the long run, the increase in the nation's industrial efficiency should mean not only lower prices for consumers but bigger sales abroad-and bigger tax revenues...
...their actions lead or cynical about it--even despairing--or lacking in the imagination to contemplate consequences and possibilities. In our judgment, the continued acceptance of deterrence as the basis of defense reflects a deep malaise from which, in varying forms and degrees, both the Western and Communist blocs suffer, Men who do not value their own or others' worth as individuals, who find life boring and sterile, may also lack the zest, inventiveness, and sense of solidarity that might unite them in a search for new approaches to the problem of survival...
...load in the Senate drive for repeal: "As much as some Americans may dislike it, the U.S. has been thrust into the center of world affairs. Either we move to strengthen the mechanisms of world peace -of which the World Court is a conspicuous example-or we continue to suffer increasingly the frustrations of a world in which there is no real peace...
...inclined to blame the new looseness on the movies ("That unmitigated evil") and cigarette smoking: "It is a biological fact that habitual smoking stimulates the oral erotic zone and the mind starts wandering." One speaker described a survey he had made indicating that 36.9% of India's people suffer from boredom, 49.7% from blighted hopes, 26.7% from emotional depression, 6.4% from sexual frustration, 49.9% from "a polluted and unwholesome atmosphere." A girl from New Delhi won the biggest cheer of the day with her complaint that "it's not her age, her beauty or her other qualifications" that...