Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard not to see Thompson's life as a romantic symbol of poetic suffering and despair, but he himself believed that poets suffer less than other men. "The delicate nature," he wrote, "stops at a certain degree of agony, as the delicate piano at a certain strength of touch...
...trying to mold the Democratic Party to their own image, "extremists who call themselves liberals" had alienated Southern voters and lost the election for two "great Americans"-Stevenson and Sparkman. If the liberals continued their efforts "to drive the South out of the party," he warned, the Democrats would suffer "the most disastrous defeat in American political history" in next year's congressional elections...
...airlines, on the other hand, do not suffer from the one great disadvantage of the aircraft industry, that of a comparative insecurity based on a fluctuating national defense budge. It is not uncommon to see half of one company's engineering staff hired by another because the second organization has been awarded a large government contract and the first had a contract discontinued...
...Because they do not get enough protein in their diet between weaning and the age at which they can forage for themselves, countless children in Asia, Africa and South America suffer from kwashiorkor (a West African word meaning red boy), Capetown's Dr. John F. Brock reported in Manhattan. Fed mainly on manioc gruel, they are stunted and their skin and hair lose pigment, making them look reddish or grey. For short-term relief, U.N. agencies are supplying thousands of tons of dried skim milk, rich in protein. But in the long run, said Dr. Brock, these primitive peoples...
...today's sad songs, people merely sob or suffer from wounded pride. Moreover, Nelly is no longer a lady Stephen Foster would have understood. She tells her boy friend: "Come on-a my house," or howls "hold me, thrill me, kiss...