Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long. Coal stocks were still plentiful, meaning that for a strike to be effective it would have to last at least a month. The miners, already drained by twelve weeks of lost overtime, representing almost a third of their weekly income, were hardly in a position to suffer greater pay losses...
Many others who have seen the film experience nightmares, hysteria and an undefined, but nevertheless profound apprehension. "It is dangerous for people with weak ego control," explains Dr. Vladimir Piskacek, a Manhattan sociologist and psychiatrist, "but it would not cause psychosis." Small children may suffer from hallucinations after seeing The Exorcist, but Dr. Piskacek doubts that the film would permanently impair even an immature mind...
...story in reading A Crown of Feathers, because the story makes plainer the pain Singer expresses in the theme that runs through A Crown of Feather's stories: people's inability to know the truth, or even to know that there is any truth that would make what they suffer meaningful. Again and again in these stories--like almost all Singer's stories, they're stories of Polish Jews or their children in the United States, told in slightly humorous, simple sentences that probably lose something for not being read aloud--the fear that what happens to people...
...races will be spread out all over the land and the famous parties will suffer. The slalom and giant slalom will be held today at Waterville Valley, sixty miles to the northeast. The cross country run, with Dartmouth's own Tim Caldwell the heavy favorite, was run Thursday at Holderness Academy, forty miles to the north. Only the carefully prepared 40-meter jump will be held at the Carnival site on Saturday. The figures of Walt's mouse and duck and dog, lately sold as decals on t-shirts and coffee mugs, will be fitting monuments to this bad luck...
...Cotton has already announced his intention to retire, and Wyman plans to become a candidate for Cotton's seat. A key cause for a possible progressive vote in New Hampshire will be the Watergate reaction, of course. Senator Barry Goldwater has estimated that Republican candidates throughout the nation will suffer a 10 per cent attrition from their normal vote as a result of Watergate. For no other state does this assessment seem more valid than New Hampshire, where the state Republican organization has been pro-Nixon down the line, and whose two congressmen have been key Nixon henchmen...