Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater provided almost all the excitement at a dull Republican National Convention. Everything had been set up for the nomination of Richard Nixon, but Barry's conservative backers insisted on placing him in nomination. Knowing he could not win-and feeling that the conservative cause would suffer a setback with his defeat -Barry withdrew. His voice harsh with emotion, he pleaded for party unity. But he also made it dramatically clear that he had not given up his cause. Cried Goldwater: "Let's grow up, conservatives! If we want to take this party back, and I think...
...suffer from a prolonged mechanical adolescence," says Peter Sellers, 38, who loves nothing better than a spin in his 83rd car, a $19,600 Ferrari, which makes a nice change of pace from his 82nd, a $14,000 Lincoln Continental. But 100 m.p.h. can be hard on the heart, and an April cardiac seizure made Peter feel like a very old man, so the wheel has come full cycle, and it's back to puberty down an English country lane for the convalescent comedian and his bride Britt Eklund...
Goldwater was, of course, aware of all this, but he felt that in good conscience he had no choice. Concluded he in his justification speech: "If my vote is misconstrued, let it be, and let me suffer its consequences. Just let me be judged in this by the real concern I have voiced here and not by words that others may speak or by what others may say about what I think...
...opposition to Duvalier in Haiti. Once in a while someone scratches "Caca Doc" (a Creole obscenity) instead of Papa Doc on the wall, and in a Port-au-Prince bar last week a sodden upper-class mulatto suddenly raised his voice: "How long must we stand here and suffer and be killed?" But most Haitians have resigned themselves to a numbing life under Duvalier. The dictator's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute roams the country ferreting out opposition and collecting "donations" from terrified businessmen. Even Duvalier's own henchmen live in mortal fear. Using Haiti's pervasive...
...scream of tedium. The prose in which they are described is also joyless and hateless, empty of merit and of error, painfully boring. And it is obvious that this is intentional. Farrell's setting is St. Louis in the 1920s, and his method is to make his readers suffer at the same pace as his characters...