Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among CBS's allies in appealing to the FCC was the Hispanic National Bar Association, which argued that Turner had "demonstrated an insensitivity for blacks, Hispanics, women and Jews." More than 100 CBS affiliates chimed in as well. Most of their petitions asserted that network programs could suffer under Turner, whose stations feature reruns of 1950s programs, including Leave It to Beaver and I Love Lucy, as well as a 24-hour news service...
...Nature will lay buried a great time," said Bacon, "and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation." Evidently, though, nature is more palatable to the conscience in the form of a cyclone than dressed as human savagery. Better to suffer the weather than to be the weather. Yet the mystery is the same. The people of Bangladesh will puzzle over a universe that periodically marks them for annihilation, but perhaps they will puzzle no less than the fellow from Liverpool who, sober, asks simply, "What got into me?" The abiding fear for everyone is that nothing got in that...
...several daily newspapers in Beirut and printed by some of them the next day, came accompanied by an ominous warning: unless the government of Kuwait agreed to release 17 Muslim fundamentalist terrorists jailed there for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in December 1983, the American captives would suffer "catastrophic consequences" and their captors would "terrorize America and France forever...
...providing Islamic Jihad with material and spiritual assistance, that the U.S. will hold Iran responsible for the fate of the Beirut hostages. Three months ago, when Islamic Jihad threatened to kill one of the Americans it was holding, Secretary of State George Shultz told Iran that it would suffer military consequences if any of the captives in Lebanon were harmed. Though it was by no means clear precisely what the Secretary had in mind, a senior State Department official added last week, "That is a permanent warning that Iran should take seriously...
...hours before the service, West German President Richard von Weizsacker had challenged his countrymen not to flinch from their responsibility for the Holocaust. "Every German was able to experience what his Jewish compatriots had to suffer, ranging from plain apathy and hidden intolerance to outright hatred," he declared in a speech in parliament. "But too many people (attempted) not to take notice of what was happening. When the unspeakable truth . . . became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, or even suspected anything...