Word: suffere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-gravitas America of the late '80s, a place that can seem weightless and evanescent, as forgetful as a television screen. Gravitas, a deep moral seriousness, is not necessarily the virtue for an electronic age. And yet Reagan possesses a gravitas of authenticity. In any case, lame ducks always suffer from diminished gravitas. People don't take them as seriously as before, when the days of power lay ahead...
...their time. Of course, living on-campus is not the nirvana of Harvard existence, but arbitrarily denying transfer students a chance to live on-campus when space is available is not justifiable. I hope that space will not continue to be jealously hoarded by Housing officers while transfers suffer. Timothy...
...button-size plastic ring on the tip of his tongue, draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed") and "oral-facial muscular imbalance...
Whatever Swaggart's ecclesiastical fate, laborers in TV evangelism, who stand to suffer yet more diminution of public esteem, emphasize that his sin does not remotely compare with Bakker's. Says Mark DeMoss, spokesman at PTL after Bakker resigned: "Last year's episode involved a lot of financial wrongdoing directly related to contributions. If Bakker had merely been accused of an affair with Jessica Hahn, he'd still...
Next, we see the bodies with pitchforks in their backs: victims of the "dosey-doe" move. These couples survived early burn-out to suffer mid-semester changes of heart, shifts in sentiment, hoardings of hormones. Soon, their attentions wander. Conversations trail off into silence. Fidelity means insurance. Euphemisms often heard now: It will be good for us; it will be good for you; so how's your roommate...