Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for Straus, the living rooms and bedrooms in these halls are a little small, but each suite has its private bathroom and the dorms appear almost brand new. The top floor rooms of these and all of Harvard's traditional dormitories suffer space inroads from a slanting roof...
...this care in admissions leads to a school whose students suffer remarkable few academic failures, considering the heavy work load. Moreover, the "gregarious, extovert" label pinned on Business School men shows itself in the lively activity program maintained by the Student Association. Attracting University-wide attention have been the fall football intramurals, which some sections have taken so seriously as to organize two-platoon systems...
When the Law School finally decided to admit women in 1949, the anti-feminists who opposed the move warned darkly, "Just wait and see." The implication was that women would be a disrupting influence and that the Law School would suffer...
...white South African will suffer more than a fine if he shoots "a native," under any circumstances. If the native is a housebreaker, the white won't suffer at all. Last year a white girl, seeking directions in Pretoria, marched up to the front door of a house. It was early evening, half-dusk. The householder saw a shadowy figure through the frosted glass panes of the front door, seized a rifle, and fired. The girl was killed. An early morning milkman suffered the same fate not long after. There was some tutting about too reckless use of firearms...
...parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...