Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carom] is devastating, a knockout punch. There's no defense." An old Basque adversary, Jose Solaun, agrees: "Make a mistake against him and you're dead." Acknowledgment has sometimes been grudging, however. Jai-alai, long dominated by the Basques, is a clique-ridden world that does not suffer outsiders gladly. Solaun admits that his countrymen distance themselves from the handsome young American: "There is a resentment and coolness, a feeling that nobody can play the game like us." Another observer puts it more bluntly: "Every time he wins, they climb the walls. They feel this is their game...
...detail. Commissioned by Congress in 1974 in response to tales of classroom horror, the 247-page report offers a slightly encouraging note: violence has tapered off in the 4,000 schools profiled since the early '70s. Nonetheless, the report notes that 25% of American schools, about 20,500, suffer from moderately serious to serious problems of vandalism, personal attack and thievery. In 1978, it estimates, one out of every nine secondary school students will have something stolen in a typical month. One out of 80 will be attacked during the same period. Among the nation's 1 million...
...rules require graduate students in the department to complete their oral examinations and perspectuses by the beginning of their third year of study, or suffer a reduction in teaching hours...
...activities..." Yet, according to the current edition of "Undergraduate Regulations and Services," "...offenses against law and order, or failure to behave with the maturity and responsibility expected of Harvard and Radcliffe students, will be dealt with as the Faculty and the Administrative Board shall determine." In addition, students may suffer immediate, temporary suspension ordered "...jointly by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a Committee consisting of an equal number of student and faculty members." (This committee...
Elizabeth did not suffer fools of the pretentious kind gladly, if at all; but it was not only 'interesting people' in whom she was interested. Nice bores, and the oddest and most unlikely people, received her sympathetic and undivided attention. Nevertheless, in Oxford she did begin to meet 'interesting people' in large numbers for the first time. And the Oxford generation with which her arrival coincided was by any standards an extraordinary one. Through David Cecil, she met Maurice Bowra, who, then in his mid-twenties-he was a year older than Elizabeth-was fellow...