Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could give Lady (Harriet Kathleen Grace) Thompson, whose family had for generations enjoyed descent from Odo, brother-in-law of William the Conqueror, was one Oliver Grace, a 16th century M.P. from Tipperary. "I'm challenging Burke's to show by what authority they make our family suffer this indignity," said the outraged Lady...
...only country, she said, where "Negroes are treated like dogs is the 'model democracy,' the United States." The anti-American Argentine press gave the Baker line as big a play as the U.S. election results as she charged Ike Eisenhower with racial discrimination: "Colored people will suffer as they have never suffered. And white people who dare defend them will be persecuted in such a way the famous German persecutions will be kid stuff. May God have pity on them." In Washington the Immigration Department indicated that should Singer Baker care to re-enter the U.S., she would...
...inflation we suffer is not an accident: it is a policy . . . The Administration's controls over prices are nothing but weak stopgaps. The really effective controls-those over money and credit-were ignored by the Administration...
...often cited the benefits with gratitude [the Rhone dam was one], but unfortunately defense of freedom in Indo-China has already cost us just about double what we have received . . ."; 3) ignoring France's objections to German rearmament: "Although we have no hatred for those who made us suffer so much, and we desire to forget their cruelties if they agree not to forget them, certain apologies for their discipline and their will to power, in comparison with an alleged carelessness on the French side, hurt us profoundly. It is as if the aggressor merited more encouragement than...
That he did keep it together was something of a miracle. Every plague a commander could suffer fell upon him. The vainglorious Charles Lee led a shameful retreat at Monmouth, and after being court-martialed, he slandered Washington up & down the states. Congress fretted and fumbled; its appropriations, snapped Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene, were "no more equal to our wants than a sprat in a whale's belly." The encampment at Morristown during the winter of 1779-80 was far worse, by Freeman's measure, than the winter at Valley Forge two years earlier...