Word: suffering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Representative Andrew Jackson May, just out of Federal prison after-serving nine months and 13 days on a bribery charge, was in a charitable mood as neighbors and friends gathered on his front porch in Prestonburg to greet him. Said he: "Although I am innocent and was made to suffer through persecution, I am not embittered...
...wiggled the injured one. Next day he presented his doctor with a dilemma: "It will do you no good if I get over this," said Shaw. "A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care." When their patient began to suffer from the recurrence of an old kidney ailment, the worried doctors issued a few "toned down" bulletins on his condition. This week he seemed as perky as ever, offered another bit of advice to his doctors. Said the author of Back to Methuselah: "For the first hundred years one should...
...first trouble, reported Austria's Helene Stourzh-Anderle, is that housework is grossly underestimated: "Other members of the household often do not discover that there is a housewife until something goes wrong." Besides lack of appreciation, housewives the world over suffer from the repetitious monotony of their tasks. Britain's Dr. Dagmar C. Wilson found in a survey of 194 homemakers that 79% complained of tiredness, anxiety and depression...
From now on, the committee would make itself the final arbiter in disputed cases. To get right, anyone accused by the committee would have to prove his innocence or his reformation to the satisfaction of the self-appointed committee, or suffer the consequences...
...Bergfrauen (mountain women) by the local population, labor as hard as the men, digging, clearing trenches, building galleries, pushing trolleys. Average pay is 200-400 East marks ($8 to $16) weekly, although a worker who exceeds the "norm" may make more. Many miners, who are issued no dust-masks, suffer from the occupational disease of silicosis. Many others suffer from gas poisoning caused by the badly ventilated mines; doctors send them back to work if they are not more than "50% disabled." The accident rate is high. News of major mining disasters continues to seep out, despite police measures...