Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salary increase of $12,500 and then turn around and cut appropriations directed toward the feeding of the hungry of our nation? America, the richest nation on earth, still votes billions to care for other peoples of the world while our own unfortunates-white, black, Indian and others-suffer. How can these same men go to bed each night with a full stomach in comfortable homes with this on their minds, or don't most of them give a damn...
Honest Reassurance. Siblings suffered too. Some felt guilty and feared that they too might suffer a fatal illness. Several complained of the parents' preoccupation with the sick child and felt rejected. A number developed severe bedwetting, headaches, poor school performance, depression and persistent abdominal pains. Nor were grandparents immune. Grief reactions and ignorance made some of them incapable of helping the sick child's parents. No fewer than ten families declared that one or both sets of grandparents had been more hindrance than help...
Congratulations and Condolences. Like instant coffee, instant history can be remarkably palatable. Goldman's pronouncements about Johnson (that he was a tragic failure, "an extraordinarily gifted President who was the wrong man from the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances") may suffer from myopia, but his book is stuffed with tangy anecdotes. Most of them hardly come out sounding like Hail to the Chief; yet they shade and amplify Johnson's enigmatic image in ways alternately provoking and satisfying...
...Enscoe will be shooting for victory in the mile run and Harvard record-holder Doug Hardin will be aiming for a two-mile win. Shaw ran a blistering 4:02.8 mile last year but has been out much of this season with the flu, causing his time to suffer considerably...
Some of the charges put to Freudianism are thoroughly familiar: that it is an expensive, timeconsuming, highly selective form of therapy, which admits only those patients who suffer from the relatively mild ailments that analysis has a plausible chance of curing. To therapists concerned with the vast volume of mental illness that needs to be treated, write Psychologists Hans H. Strupp and Allen E. Bergin in a study for the National Institute of Mental Health, "a little, but significant, change for a lot of people is seen as preferable to protracted efforts to produce large-scale changes...