Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people he speaks for are without arms or resources, and can play no part in the power line-up of the world. Yet, in ignoring them, the West does injury to itself and to its moral case. His aims for them are moderate; he is passionately sure that they suffer monstrous injustice; he is using whatever means are open to a Christian to help them. It seems certain that he will be defeated in the end and pass, among politicians, for a failure. But it is likely that he will be remembered by millions of voteless Africans as one Christian...
...vacation-long automobile safari to the South. Travelling 1,000 miles in cramped cars is tiring under any circumstances; likewise sleeping in different locations each night. When the team has to combine these transportational problems with the fatigue induced from daily lacrosse, its stamina and performance must inevitably suffer...
...must continue to be patient and keep hanging on to this thing, and I think it will pay off in the end. But if we get impatient, we are going to suffer for it. By that I mean we will get either poorer armistice terms, or no armistice at all. The period now is very critical. We must hang on, keep at it, and try to get this thing through...
German, Italian, and Swiss universities are all good with the exception of Zurich and possibly Geneva, which suffer the fate of their French counterparts. Seminars of all sorts, too numerous to mention, function during the summer. Information regarding these, as well as the other phases of travel and study abroad, are available at P.B.H., in the office of the Student Council, or through the N.S.A. at their New Work address. For how not to travel, chapter I of Ludwig Bemelman's "I Love You, I Love You, I Love You," is required reading
...long as our citizens call their tongue "English," they will suffer from a lingual inferiority complex. Good Americans will feel a certain compunction to speak good English. This is not good for Patriotism. Americanism cannot thrive when its very mode of communication is branded with an alien label. Before America Became Great, there may have been some who secretly wished that the colonies might some day return to the Empire, but these men have long since disappeared. Their lingual crutch should go with them...