Word: suffering
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...president "greater flexibility and selectivity" if the United States should become involved in a nuclear war. Why Schlesinger made this announcement is unclear. Perhaps he intended it as a polite threat to the Soviets: Come to terms in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks now resuming in Geneva or suffer the consequences. Perhaps it was meant for domestic U.S. consumption as a rationale to justify new expenditures on strategic forces...
...working for Andrew Greeley as one of the outstanding privileges of my life. Catholic theology tells us that part of a priest's job is to "make the bishop present" in the community. When there is no true friendship between a priest and his bishop, both of them suffer...
...that you suffer from acute dyspepsia," said Holmes, as he ushered our guest to a chair. "I see further that you have not slept in two days, do a lot of praying at odd hours, and have been experiencing great difficulty with a tape recorder...
There is, of course, the danger that Simon will suffer instant overexposure. He is beginning to sound like a politician at the end of a long campaign, answering the same questions by repeating the same phrases ("We want to be able to prepare for the worst" or "The day of cheap energy is over"). If people stop listening, that could badly hurt Simon's program, which depends greatly on voluntary cooperation. In particular, public boredom with Simon could foil his attempts to dispel the growing suspicion that the energy shortage is a phony...
Transexuals, of whom there are perhaps 10,000 in the U.S., are not to be confused with homosexuals and transvestites. Classic transexuals are born with the anatomy of one sex but suffer from a total, lifelong identification with the other, perhaps influenced by prenatal hormone disturbances. Transexuals generally disdain association with professed homosexuals. Unlike transvestites, they do not dress in clothes of the opposite gender for erotic stimulation, but simply because they feel more comfortable that...