Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when there were, in fact, 18 servants there with her. ("She was quality" explained one devoted retainer.) Despite increasing feebleness, she continued to maintain at least nominal sway over what remained of high society. At the 1949 opening of the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in a wheelchair, persuaded to suffer this discomfort by a friend's remark that Queen Mary was upset because "so few were left to uphold traditions...
...fact, something of a contrived issue. In the period of Vincent's China Affairs service, during the late '30s and early '40s, those in the Foreign Service or outside who dared disagree with State's proCommunist, anti-Nationalist line were the ones likely to suffer discrimination and disparagement...
...Shower & Shave. Far more typical is the case of George, a 22-year-old private first class from New England. He had been in the line for six months and was beginning to suffer from shaking spells...
...country." At this point, Britain's leading Roman Catholic, Bernard Cardinal Griffin, spoke up in a quieter voice. "To say that we find it difficult to understand why this invitation was extended is an understatement." But Anthony Eden, said the cardinal, "need not fear that his visitor will suffer discourtesy, let alone violence, at our hands." The Economist insisted that "the majority of British people are curious to see the man who stood up against Stalin, who fought a good fight against the Germans ... It would be a pity if Roman Catholics in this country found themselves shoulder...
...intense is the rivalry between Quirino and Laurel, the logical opponents, that Filipinos fear the country will suffer a repetition of the intimidation and general bloodshed which accompanied Quirino's victory in 1949. In that election, armed soldiers herded voters to the polls, and even the birds, bees and trees were "voted." Jose Laurel, openly predicting violence, came out recently with a dramatic proposal for forestalling it: For the good of the Philippines, he suggested, both he and Quirino should 1) renounce their ambitions to the Presidency, and 2) agree to support popular Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay...