Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worthy to Suffer...
Irate Stockholders. But it was a dark day for Douglas Aircraft's Donald Douglas Sr., who had to suffer through a 2½-hour meeting and shouts of "baloney" after announcing "an extremely disappointing" $6,949,002 loss for the quarter, due mostly to extra-heavy development expenses on the DC-8 jetliner program. At Columbia Broadcasting System, Chairman William S. Paley had an unruly meeting on his hands, with irate stockholders complaining over lower earnings (slightly less than 1959's 87? for the first quarter), the payola TV scandals and a handful of other problems. Said Chairman...
Sleuths of the Department for Struggle, etc. raided a shop operated by one Anna Lazaryeva, discovered $9,250 worth of yarn, 150 sweaters and $7,500 in cash; a few doors away a second shop was discovered producing 100 blouses a day. The operators, said Krokodil, suffer from no shortage: state textile-industry employees swipe huge amounts of wool from government plants, resell it at a tidy profit to black-marketeers...
...while you are honored. To this very moment we are starving, thirsty, ragged, battered tramps . . . We are like the dregs and scum of society!"-But he also said: "In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." The Pharisee. Paul was not raised to suffer public scourgings and jostlings in police courts. He was born (probably some ten to 15 years after Jesus) to a prominent family in a prominent city. Tarsus in Cilicia, famed for its wealth and culture, was 1,000 years old in Saul's time, had a population of about...
...participation in the World Court, can be abolished only by a treaty-ratifying two-thirds vote of the Senate. Party leaders polled members, found too many up-for-election Senators afraid to stand on a hot issue not yet understood by millions of voters. Rather than suffer a damaging defeat, the Humphrey amendment's supporters decided to mark time...