Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about." The fanatics are warring Irish Catholics and Protestants, a half-century's resentment festering between them. They spike their drinks with faith baiting and engage, Casablanca-style, in fierce simultaneous renditions of Ave Maria and The Sash. By midnight one pensioner will suffer a fatal heart attack, an Ulster terrorist will be strangled by an old boyo, and two aged gents will duke it out in the men's room. Did we mention? No Surrender is a comedy...
...reason the boycott has been so widespread is that many people have been persuaded or coerced by the young activists to join the strike or suffer the consequences. To many of the township's residents, the choice is between paying the rent and risking retaliation by the militants or withholding the rent and facing eviction...
Warning that journalists "suffer from being arrogant as hell" about their First Amendment rights, Peter Braestrup, editor of The Wilson Quarterly, noted that journalists "need a lot of public humility. Everybody needs humility, even Harvard...
...Iraq, with whom it has been at war for the past six years. But this time Iran dropped its usual demand. Iraq would be exempt from the agreement and could continue to produce at full capacity, about 1.8 million bbl. of oil a day. Iran would not really suffer either. It would keep pumping at present levels, lifting some 2.3 million...
...Ronald Guderian has no answer; he knows only that the treatment seems to work. "After we help people, we can ask questions," says Guderian, an American missionary physician working in the Amazon rain forests of Ecuador. Snakebites account for 4% of deaths in the region, and survivors sometimes suffer tissue damage that can lead to gangrene and amputation of the affected limb. But as reported in the July 26 issue of the Lancet, a British medical journal, Guderian has successfully treated 34 Ecuadorian Indians with electric shocks over the past six years, without apparent side effects or lingering pain from...