Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence did not suffer too badly," his mother said last night. "He-and the rest of the Americans-were disappointed, but he realized there's still a lot of skating ahead...
...past, about the worst the horses were known to suffer was poor teeth -too many sugar cubes from admiring children-and most reached the age of 20 before going to the slaughterhouse. But of late, said Löwenbräu's Heinz Moelter, "their fur lost its gloss, their eyes their shine, and their pulling power declined." Recently, Munich's local Animal Protection Society confirmed what the brewery had suspected. "They informed us that permitting the animals to continue working in Munich's poisonous atmosphere amounted to sheer cruelty," said Moelter. "Significantly, they didn...
...anxious to end the Laotian fighting, which has forced an incredible number of refugees into U.S.-run camps: 700,000, or 30% of the population. But hard-liners on the right threaten real trouble if Souvanna should open serious peace talks with the Pathet Lao or if he should suffer another major defeat. "If Long Cheng or the Bolovens Plateau falls," said one Laotian general, "Souvanna is finished." The Communist advance was also a signal to Abrams that if the U.S. menaced the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the Pathet Lao and the North Vietnamese would take over most...
...foot in a fall, are now installed on virtually every pair of skis sold or rented in the U.S. But such bindings may be useless if they are not properly adjusted and maintained. Many novice skiers fall too slowly to open the bindings. Some critics argue that women, who suffer twice as many ski injuries as men, are often too light to activate the release mechanism...
...matter how miserable his actual life, the classical composer tends to suffer in a new way on film. Cornel Wilde as Chopin in A Song to Remember; Stewart Granger as Paganini in The Magic Bow; Toralv Maurstad as Grieg in Song of Norway-all were grotesque travesties. Thus The Music Lovers is merely the latest entry in the continuing series Great Lives Trivialized...