Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side, McNiff has time to wear down his opponents. He can sit back and argue around the issue. What the Council can do is to force a decision by polling the resident students. If they are willing to suffer a slight inconvenience for the sake of the commuters, then McNiff's dogged reasoning will have a very hollow clank...
...frightened to death." But they had little idea just how it might come about, i.e., how the emotion of fear could make the heart stop beating-victims of heart trouble are not likely to be sitting in a doctor's office having an electrocardiogram taken when they suffer a fatal fright. Now some of the missing evidence...
...revolt is short and bitter. Humbly and penitently, she returns. From then on, Hélene is made to suffer for every moment of pleasure. Tamara finally takes her to a Lesbian nightclub and abandons her to the pawings of a frumpy rival...
...because it makes men moral, but because it civilizes them. He enjoyed mocking American. English and German Protestants for their rigid dismissal of superstition and their concern with questions of conduct. The doctrine of eternal damnation (he wrote) did not mean that man must behave himself lest he suffer torment in the afterlife, but was a poetically enlightening image which refined men's sensibility and hardened their stoicism before the intolerable truth that all human acts, all evils and all pain, are irremediable. What is done is done, and man must take the consequences with open eyes. Between Spanish...
...there-like most Egyptians-live in mud huts, dress in rags and eat the bread of the poor (Egypt has two kinds of bread; the rich, white variety is available only to the rich). Three out of four own less than an acre of land, two out of three suffer from hookworm and malaria, nine out of ten are partially blind from the effects of bad water and undernourishment. Near the palace gates, beggars lay in the hot sun, too weak, sick, or hopeless to drag themselves into the shade...