Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will suffer this year because of a late application." Richard H. Field, head of the faculty admissions committee said yesterday. Although Field said that he felt the committee had correctly estimated the size and quality of this year's applications, he conceded that early misinterpretation of these factors could lead to inequities...
Winton B. Rankin, an FDA spokesman, told a special Senate subcommittee that the agency had found no evidence that such impurities are to blame; for safety's sake the FDA is continuing its investigation. There is no doubt, however, that some wearers of contact lenses suffer eye damage from other causes. Explained Rankin: "It appears that the principal difficulty arises from improper fitting, insanitary practices by the wearer, or wearing the lenses too long at a time." On that, optometrists and ophthalmologists, who have differed sharply over the fitting of contacts, were for once in agreement...
...early Christianity, Father Dyer says, interpreted these words strictly, and consigned unbaptized babes to hell. "They are vessels of contumely and the wrath of God is upon them," wrote St. Augustine. "If no one frees them from the grasp of the devil, what wonder is it that they must suffer in flames with...
...major center of persecution of Jews nowadays is the Soviet Union. In a land openly dedicated to atheism, the 3,000,000 Jews of Russia suffer more than any other faith because they are attacked both for their religion and as a despised national minority. Last week in Washington, more than 500 representatives from 24 U.S. Jewish organizations gathered to plan the kind of loud foreign protest that so far has proved the best curb on Soviet antiSemitism...
...candy coatings and flavors, are made so deathly ill that they have to have their stomachs pumped out. Aspirin irritates the lining of the stomach, and ulcer victims often find the effects of the medicine worse than the headache they are trying to cure. In extreme cases, they suffer internal bleeding or their ulcers perforate. As with all drugs, a few people are abnormally sensitive to aspirin; even a normal dose may cause dizziness, nausea, a skin rash, or an asthmatic crisis...