Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these things can happen under a communist bureaucracy or a capitalist bureaucracy. Disasters can result like Mao's great leap forward where millions starved or Union Carbide's Bhopal where hundreds of thousands were injured. When a society's hyper-mechanization moves out of the people's notice they suffer from depersonalization...
...hybrid designed to bridge two aviation ages. But its birth in the late 1950s was a painful one. Two of the early Electras lost wings, one over Texas in 1959, the other over Indiana in 1960. Ninety-seven people died. The 400-m.p.h. propjet plane was found to suffer from a "runaway flutter," in which vibration was transmitted from an engine to a propeller and then to a wing, which would sometimes shake loose. Lockheed spent $25 million to modify the design and strengthen the plane. Gradually, most pilots lost their fear of the aircraft, and a military version...
...current space, and guesswork. The latter, not surprisingly, is the hardest part, basically a prediction of how many students in a particular House will decide to take a leave the following year. When those doing the guessing miss the mark--even by a small number--the already crowded Houses suffer. A few years ago, North House got squeezed. This year, Mather got crunched...
...accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. That general responsibility rests upon it, but it is the only one I can think of. The ways in which it is at liberty to accomplish this result (of interesting us) strike me as innumerable, and such as can only suffer from being marked out or fenced in by prescription...
...eyes staring out of his portraits are those of a private and somewhat lonely man whose fate was to suffer double exile: as a public figure in a foreign land. It was as if he had been sentenced for life to be a Prince and Buckingham Palace was his prison. In a touching letter to his brother, he spoke his heart: "In a small house there is more cheerfulness to be found than there is in the big cold world, in which most people have hearts of stone...