Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others suggested that serviceman's morale would suffer if they had to visualize their wives and girl friends in uniform "instead of keeping the home fires burning...
Moreover, he seemed to suffer from chronic bad luck. As a young man (a conservatory classmate of Sergei Prokofiev) he won the Rubinstein Prize, but his career was thrown off pace by World War I and the Bolshevik revolution. His first tour of England fell apart before it got started when his English manager dropped dead. Once, while his piano was taken off to Rio de Janeiro, he was left standing on the dock for lack of a visa. Two years after his sensational U.S. debut, a New Yorker critic wrote: "It wouldn't be hard to make...
...weaning, drink pulque (fermented juice of the maguey plant) instead. The parents of a pellagra-stricken three-year-old girl last week listed a typical diet: for breakfast, beans, tortillas, pulque; for lunch, beans and pulque] for supper, orange-leaf tea. Said a Mexican doctor: "The children of Mexico suffer from 'mexicanitis'-hunger...
...forget the misery of his schooldays. He had grown so fast that he towered above all his classmates, was so gangling and awkward that he became the butt of their jokes. He swore that his five-year-old son David, already over four feet tall, would never have to suffer from the family curse of being...
Where can the Government cut its own spending? C.E.D. thinks that the $9.1 billion earmarked for non-defense spending in the 1951-52 year is too high: it is $2.3 billion more than in 1948, when "the nation did not suffer from inadequate Government services." C.E.D. also doubts the need for a 90% increase ($1.4 billion) over 1948's spending on public works, and a $2.6 billion boost over 1951's spending on foreign aid, especially since Europe has made "great recovery...