Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether nuclear weapons are offensive or defensive depends largely on the point of view. The U.S., which has concentrated on offensive weapons, has always insisted that it maintains a defensive stance and would never make the first attack. But it has promised that any sneak attack it might suffer, no matter how damaging, would trigger an automatic response so terrible as to be intolerable to any enemy...
...understand his commitment. The words and acts of the ritual tend to support this view: when the bishop anoints the forehead with chrism, a mixture of olive oil and balm, he also administers a ceremonial slap on the cheek to remind him that he must be ready to suffer for his faith...
These drugs, of which the best-known are 5-fluorouracil and methotrexate, are given by mouth or injection to get them into the bloodstream for the treatment of deep-seated tumors. But while they kill cancer cells, they also damage many normal cells; the patient may suffer such severe side effects that their use is generally restricted to far-advanced, near-hopeless cases...
...Japanese correspondent who recently visited the region, Chinese border troops insulted the "revisionists" by hauling down their trousers and flaunting their backsides at the Soviets across the frontier. The Chinese "provocation" ceased when the Russians held up a portrait of Mao Tse-tung, whose face could only suffer under such an Eastern exposure...
...Herr denket" did, however, suffer slightly through being somewhat uniform in sound, especially since the entire soprano section sang the soprano aria, and all the men sang the tenor-bass duet, for no apparent reason. Part of the function of these solos is to break up the homogeneity of the choral sound, and though the chorus sang lightly and clearly enough to prevent their sounding rough or gross, the listener missed the delicate sound of individual voices singing ornate lines clearly intended for solo performance...