Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a gamble in Nixon's decision to commit himself so heavily, but it seems a shrewd one. If the Republicans sustain serious setbacks, he will suffer a blow to his prestige. However, losses in a mid-term election are likely to be soon forgotten or explained away, while any gain in strength will be a boost for Nixon, allowing the President to claim that he has won a national referendum on his policies...
...windshield wiper of Dr. Ohta's Rolls-Royce. "Hallowween 1970," it read. "Today World War III will begin as brought to you by the people of the free universe. From this day forward anyone and/or company of persons who misuses the natural environment or destroys same will suffer the penalty of death by the people of the free universe." The note was signed with fortuneteller tarot-card names, one name to a line: "Knight of Wands, Knight of Cups, Knight of Pentacles, Knight of Swords...
...Angeles, $146,000 in Dallas. In all, the pledges were more than $3.5 million below the national budget quota of $14.7 million. Modeste was undisturbed. In his official report last March, he had written that "the Church, the temporal, institutional body of Christ, must be willing to suffer...
There are some men whose tragedy arises not from what they suffer but what they fail to feel. Little Fauss and Big Halsy are such men-and so are those who made the movie...
...stood at one or the other of two extremes: "strict, cruel and unjust or weak, vacillating, ineffective or absent altogether." The son grows up hating the father, and learning to take on the cop, capitalism and the Establishment. He can, says Wahl, even murder without guilt. Many revolutionaries suffer from searing feelings of inadequacy, Wahl adds, and therefore have a greater-than-ordinary need for notoriety. Supporting this view, De Paul University Psychologist Thomas Milburn speaks of the "Icarus complex" among many terrorists?"even though you fall to earth, you've tried one spectacular thing...