Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last November several people told me that if I voted for McGovern the morale of the citizenry would suffer, the country would be in a big mess, and there would be corruption in Government...
...touch of madness one of the hazards of the parson's profession? It may be, at least among the Presbyterian ministers in the straitlaced Church of Scotland. A recent study of a representative sampling of the church's clergy men claims that fully 68% suffer from "mental, psychoneurotic and personality disorders." Dr. Hugh A. Eadie, a young Presbyterian minister from Australia, made the findings while at the University of Edinburgh, as part of a larger examination of the health of Scottish clergy. The first section of his inquiry determined that ministers enjoyed better health than most other Scottish...
...laugh, "Oh come on now. At 10 p.m.?" "Yeah, well, I got bored." "Great. I'm downstairs" (the dorm was guarded by a switchboard) "I'll come right up and entertain you." At which point, having let myself in for it, I'd either go through with it and suffer, or I'd drop the niceness act--"Look, I just don't want to" and hang up mortified by the cruelty in rejection...
Taiana: You are in a delicate state. But since you talk about the country, I must be frank. Your faculties might suffer a decline. And inasmuch as we know you are not going to take orders, that you are going to work, that it is impossible to control you, I think you must be prepared for this situation. [There will be] possible losses of memory, very intense fatigue. Your heart is strong but undergoing tremendous tension. Your polyps are also a problem...
...year reign of Queen Victoria represents the zenith of the British Empire. Yet, as all too many Englishmen discovered, the Victorian era was perhaps also one of the cruelest periods of British history--cruel not in the sense of physical abuse such as the English had been forced to suffer under the Tudors, but cruel in its absolute lack of tolerance for those who refused to strictly follow the "prim and proper" moral dictates of society. Those prominent Victorians whose lifestyle deviated from society's norms lived in the fear of finding Scotland Yard daily at their doors, ready...