Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was troubled by spiritual questions. In Rangoon, where he was paying a neighborly call on the Burmese government, a reporter asked Nehru about the contradiction between his Occidental education and his Hindu background, inquired whether he was not suffering from inner conflict. "Yes, I am suffering from inner conflict," replied the Pandit. "One who doesn't suffer from inner conflict is a lunatic...
...simple girl from the backwoods who can't read but who is the best shot you damn well ever saw, Miss Hutton overplays her part with her usual animal energy, and lack of artistry. Those who have a yen for her will not mind, but the discriminating may suffer, and those who have seen Miss Merman in the part had better...
...thought that the world's sick currencies were close to a complete cure-or might not suffer a relapse-but the drop in gold fever was the best news in months from the bedside...
...trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love stories while her charges suffer. Unable to keep her newborn baby, rebuffed by her mother (brilliantly played as a well-intentioned featherbrain by Phoebe Brand), refused a parole, and finally deprived of a foundling kitten she has adopted, Eleanor changes from a bewildered innocent into an embittered malcontent...
...Pope had left no doubt that he sided with Jachym on the issue of anti-Communist militancy v. conciliation. Vatican insiders reported that he had lectured Innitzer on the meaning of the cardinal's red as a symbol of its wearer's duty to suffer martyrdom, if necessary, in the defense of the church. Cardinal Innitzer was disgruntled by the whole affair, angrily refused to talk to the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano when a reporter called to ask a question...