Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that only the landlord and his wife lived on the top floor. But when he moved in, the house suddenly teemed with the landlord's six children, running up & down the stairs and through the apartment vestibule. Because of the bleakness of the housing situation, he decided to suffer such inconveniences in Spartan silence...
...Grande into the U.S. But World War II brought labor shortages to California and Texas harvest fields, and in the years which followed, the wetbacks thronged in by the tens of thousands. The annual invasion has grown bigger & bigger-despite legislation, public clamor, the hardships which the wetbacks suffer, and the best efforts of the U.S. border patrol, which caught and shipped 635,135 of them home (many of them repeaters) during 1952 alone...
They do this, said Mather, because they are seeking only to find people whom they can "crucify by the public ignominy which they suffer...
...resentment to contempt. "For the most part," says Harvard's Mark DeWolfe Howe, "a committee ascertains in a closed hearing the facts it needs to know. Following that, it proceeds to conduct an open meeting, with the realization that the people who kept silent will keep silent and suffer public disgrace." They are, adds President Philip Davidson of the University of Louisville, "unnecessary, irresponsible fishing expeditions" that could well destroy public confidence in the whole teaching profession...
...misers here suffer none of the crushing caricature of Moliere's L'Avare, written a century earlier. Gretry's characters romp through their villanies like a couple of school-children. In the end the misers' greed is duly admonished and their young wards are awarded their rightful inheritances and are allowed to marry...