Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rounds-handled by a man who had never fired a bazooka before in his life. The fight for El Argoup lasted a week and ended in a rout that cost the Egyptians three tanks, seven armored cars and 160 dead. De Carvalho asked a haggard sheik if his men suffered from battle fatigue. The sheik frowned: "We suffer from many diseases in Yemen, but battle fatigue-what is that...
...General Mills, Texaco, Socony Mobile and Owens Corning-have bought executive jets and have found them an impressive status symbol in the business world. But just because they are that, some executives fear to buy them, concerned about the reaction of cost-conscious shareholders. Sales of company jets also suffer from the feeling that jet speed is not essential for most short business trips, and from the preference of many businessmen to fly commercially on longer trips. The fact that most of the 24,000 nonjet corporate aircraft now in service in the U.S. are relatively new also inhibits more...
...final report two years ago, former dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender '27 warned that as Harvard became more competitive, many bright and able students might suffer anxieties and frustrations because they were only "average" in a college where considerable academic ability was not the exception but the rule...
...summons no easy answers. It is laid in Hollywood, although it is not really a Hollywood novel. It has to do with a dozen or so people whose lives touch one another only momentarily and tangentially. Their awkward collidings are sometimes funny but more often sad, because they suffer, as nonswimmers often do, from an inability to gauge the depth of the world about them...
...might be limited. To achieve this, he would in effect hold Soviet cities as hostages. That is, he would have the U.S. first respond to attack by striking only at Soviet missile sites and military installations; he would then serve an ultimatum to the enemy to quit shooting or suffer destruction of its cities...