Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seventeenth century man, these were puzzling and frightening phenomena. The most plausible explanation seemed to be that the children had been bewitched. After all, everyone know the power of the Devil and no one doubted the existence of witches. Does not the Bible say: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."? And had not one of the most learned men of the day, the eminent Cotton Mather, recently published a voluminous work on the evidences of witchcraft...
Hence the Yale students as well as the visitors suffer from the revised plan, but McDermott reports, "We have little or no complaint from the undergraduates." And what protest there is will undoubtedly soon die a natural death, for only the Class of 1954 was around in the good old days, when Eli students were on the shady side of the street...
...cannot continue," wrote 67-year-old Premier David Ben-Gurion last week. "I cannot bear up any more against the mental strain that I suffer in the government . . . For six years I have been working in a state of high tension . . . Mine is no ordinary tiredness." The Mapai Party's central committee heard his letter read in silence, then his comrades begged him to reconsider. But B-G sat still and unmoving. A woman rose; she had lost two sons in the war to establish Israel. "If I gave my sons to the nation," she demanded...
...sophomores or. their reading v. TV habits, English Teacher M. Isabelle Hall of the Hope High School in Providence announced that she was about ready to give the whole thing up. "Typical" answers: "I'd rather sit and look than sit and exercise my brain." "Miss Hall, I suffer when I read." "Books give you an idea of how to get into trouble but never tell you how to get out of it." "A masterpiece is something you don't understand." "I'm going to read a book some time. I saw a quiz show...
...kickstand and jammed his finger into the spokes, which had seemed to him at a safe distance. Often they cannot count unless they can touch the objects. Most victims have a tantalizingly short attention span, so that teaching them calls for Job-like patience, but paradoxically they suffer from perseveration -the tendency to keep on saying a word or repeating an action long after the occasion for it has passed...