Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes me blush," he admits. "One of these white flags flew from the house where I was born." Denouncing the "cynicism of the Americans" for singing God Bless America at the end of a service in Cologne Cathedral, he writes on April 2: "What humiliations have we still to suffer before the moment of deliverance comes...
...Robert Johnson of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., who helped conduct a 1970 medical study of several hundred athletes, figures that large numbers of the country's estimated 10 million joggers and runners suffer at some time from athletic pseudonephritis, especially if they exercise strenuously for an hour or more at a time. The problem, says Johnson, is that many doctors are unaware of the phenomenon and may order up expensive tests instead of the simple follow-up exam that would show the condition to be pseudonephritis. "Doctors are used to studying people who have been lying down...
...spend their lives in one room, sleeping on the floor, taking their water from a public faucet and using the street as a toilet. Many go through a whole lifetime without once taking a bath. Infants who play in garbage and excrement are themselves covered with flies, and they suffer from chronic dysentery, as well as lung diseases aggravated by dust and sand filtering into their homes. Despite free compulsory education, only about 25% of the population can read and write...
Chatworth's adventures in cultural schizophrenia start when he is nine. As World War II begins, his family moves to the U.S., where he enrolls in a New Jer sey boarding school. Robbed of sharing England's finest hour, young Pendrid must suffer a blitzing from unruly students who find his accent and manners fruity. His charades of Churchillian courage only complicate his humiliations. Back in postwar England, Chatworth once again finds himself a foreigner. There he plays the American with painful results. But in the U.S., Chatworth has tasted freedom from his crusty English Catholic past...
...described Maureen Stapleton as inhabiting "a large, amorphous body out of which protrude flipperlike limbs and a face without a single redeeming feature." To Simon, Maggie Smith resembles "an upstart rooster aspiring to barnyard supremacy." Glenda Jackson "has the looks of an asexual harlequin." Most leading ladies suffer Simon silently, but after he characterized Sylvia Miles as a "party girl and gate crasher," she dumped a plate of food on him in a Manhattan restaurant...