Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain Jaime Gonzalez in the first slot, the freshmen have shown great strength in the top six positions, but suffer from inexperience and a lack of depth at the lower rungs. Trying to fortify the line-up. Coach H. Corey Wynn will substitute Mark Moulton at number eight for Charles Gilbert, who is suffering from mononucleosis. Steve Downes will play for Darry Harvey in the last slot...
...four girls on her students' residence committee estimate that 80 'Cliffe seniors will move off-off next year, compared with the 45 Radcliffe permitted off-off this year. Mrs. Austin admitted that her own estimate was "somewhat higher." If only 80 girls leave, she added, Radcliffe will not suffer financially...
Some of the apologists carried their rationalization to astonishing lengths. Slavery might be intolerable for a white man, they admitted, but the black was different: his mental and neurological inferiority did not permit him to "suffer as a white man would have." Slavery, in the words of Boswell, was a "happier state of life" for "African Savages." To abolish it, he protested, would be the real crime-"robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects," meaning the slaveowners...
...found, Glenn showed the audience the sites of the ancient slave trade and pointed out the tall mango trees "grown from seeds spat out by slaves." He winced visibly at a beggar who had been blinded, deplored disease, illiteracy (80%), and the poached-out game lands that the natives suffer with "silent resignation." "Shooting for the pot" (living off the land) for part of the journey, as did the Stanley expedition, Glenn briefly tried to master hurling the knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle to dispatch-in two shots-a massive...
...blood-then, as Finance Minister from 1958 to 1966, bent himself to the more creditable task of successfully building a vigorous, stable economy for his gold-rich country. His real ambition was to be Prime Minister, but he finally settled for the largely ceremonial office of President, only to suffer a stroke 20 days before his scheduled inauguration last...