Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the present first-year class will probably sustain greater injury than next year's. Certain areas of study, such as the Natural Sciences, stand to suffer much more than others, and specific departments may see virtually an entire class of scholars wiped out, because these areas and departments have a greater proportion of students who may be drafted...
When we turn to the question of wounded, again the civilians seem to suffer most. This comes about really through the same process that has made the refugees. Something close to two thirds of the land area of South Vietnam is today declared a free fire zone. This means that anything in that area can be bombed, can be machine gunned, at the will of the spotters flying over in planes...
...graduates (v. 4% last year) and a year or two older than men taken today. There is every likelihood that draft demonstrations will increase in size and stridency, when many of those most opposed to the war face imminent induction. There is also some likelihood that Army morale will suffer, as thousands of men who question the war are sent to fight...
Lapp took strong issue with the Pentagon's Dr. Finn Larsen, who last month insisted that the population below would scarcely notice the explosions of Spartan and Sprint warheads, and that at worst humans might suffer temporary blindness if they were looking directly at the flash. Exploded 100 miles above New Brunswick, N.J., Lapp said, a one-megaton weapon would create a spectacular, incandescent fire-pancake 50 miles up so large that it would overlap both New York and Philadelphia...
...Sterling views it, all too many clergymen suffer from similar frustrations. Often, he says, it is the "maddening nothingness of their contemporary ministry" that drives clerics to abandon the pulpit; those who resist such pressures frequently become ineffective victims of "overstay" in their parishes. Compounding their plight, disturbed priests are usually afraid or ashamed to discuss their feelings with their bishops or parishioners...