Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because he has trained himself to wake early." Other psychologists agree that recalcitrant risers simply do not like the activity that awaits them and subconsciously would rather stay in the womb of sleep. It is also well known that early-rising spouses often suffer attacks of fury at the sight of a still-sleeping partner. The only relief: to wake him or her by slamming doors, turning on radios, or sending relays of children to jump up and down...
...undergraduates suffer. As the exploited outsiders in a system which encourages "research on the artificial flowers of learning," they have the right to feel neglected. They have the right, and yet they don't have the right. Mr. Barzun refers testily to "their arrogant pretensions and airs of holier-than-thou." If put into effect, their egalitarian slogans would destroy what remains of the teacher-student relationship...
Besides those who are exempt from jury duty, like lawyers and doctors, a number of others are excused because they are hard of hearing, have ill spouses, suffer from weak bladders or cannot stand the economic sacrifice. John Carmody, an American Bar Association specialist on court procedures, reports that many people who want to avoid long service purposely do not register to vote (since jurors are often picked at random from voting lists). Others may even lie in court. In murder trials, for example, they may insist that they oppose capital punishment-though such persons are no longer automatically excused...
...they have written. These men sitting around a littered coffee table know that if--when their work opens in New York a month later--Clive Barnes (of the New York Times) does not like their show, they are in big trouble. Their show will close, their artistic reputations will suffer, and the play's investors will lose a lot of money ($150,000 and up for a drama, $500,000 and up for a musical). Indeed, the stakes are high...
...symptoms vary widely. Some specialists in epidemics and infectious diseases are convinced that the virus labeled A2-Hong Kong-68 is proving more variable than most preceding strains. For one thing, many victims describe symptoms that seem conspicuously different from those of the patient next door. One man may suffer a three-day bout of sniffling, coughing, headache and muscle twinges, with little fever, while his neighbor may run a high fever, return to work after a miserable week in bed, and promptly suffer a disabling relapse...