Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aluminum makers with two-thirds of their bauxite, they are so mechanized that fewer than 3,000 natives work in them. For the most part, Surinamers live in stagnant torpor, surrounded by jungle, mangrove swamps, umbrella ants, red howlers, web-footed dogs, and water pigs. Most of the people suffer variously from malaria, fllariasis, dysentery or leprosy...
...lights went up again, six deceptively slim and pale-skinned runners were waiting in a lonely and nervous group on the homestretch of the hardwood track. The loudspeakers announced the famed Wanamaker Mile. The crowd rumbled. Even those who did not quite understand the amateur's willingness to suffer for glory could feel the tension; the six were meeting in indoor track's main event, a punishing and uncertain contest which would be won only after all were half dead with blinding, burning fatigue...
Said Mrs. Waring: "I realize that if one has a cause, one has to be willing to suffer for it." Her telephone was kept busy with anonymous threats. Condemnatory-and a few congratulatory-letters poured in from over the South. Telegrams of praise came from the corners of the U.S. But still no callers came to Mrs. Waring's door...
...Century Finger. The Tormentors is motored by two main ideas: 1) that the unjust ultimately suffer more than their victims, and 2) that in a society where brutality is normal, one man's kindness cannot undo the evil to which the society has bound...
Professor Wiener says that some computers are already "human" enough to suffer from typical psychiatric troubles. Unruly memories, he says, sometimes spread through a machine as fears and fixations spread through a psychotic human brain. Such psychoses may be cured, says Wiener, by rest (shutting down the machine), by electric shock treatment (increasing the voltage in the tubes), or by lobotomy (disconnecting part of the machine...