Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First: The committee's decision to establish a 3:1 male-female ratio at one of the Quad Houses is wholly unfair to the upperclassmen of that House. These students decided, one, or two, or three years ago, to suffer the disadvantages--real or imagined--of Quad life, in order that they may enjoy its one important benefit: a normal distribution of men and women ("Quad Spirit" being but a result of this.) Now they stand to lose this advantage, apres coup...
...front-line rallies, Savimbi urged others to follow. After eight years in the bush as a guerrilla fighter against the Portuguese, he professed not to see any problem with this. 'Mao taught us that a peasant revolution can be successful, but the people have to be willing to suffer,' said Savimbi, who spent nine months in China in 1965. 'When one has a garden in the bush to defend, one will defend it. We are asking [people] to go into the bush and plant a garden to support themselves...
...Jews were arrested by SS troops in a raid on Rome's ghetto in October 1943, for example, Hitler's ambassador was summoned to the Vatican. There he was told that the raid "was painful for the Holy Father in that so many persons were made to suffer simply because they belonged to another race." According to Volume IX, the decision to stop short of denunciation was made partly from concern over jeopardizing the Holy See's diplomatic efforts on behalf of the Jews. Another reason was an awareness, as one of the volume's researchers...
...Virginia, a superliberated black law student who next week will announce her candidacy for Congress. Ginny will also continue to suffer the affections of Clyde, a jive-spouting lay-about who buys a new Buick with silver-fox fur seats because "I'm into comfort...
...wife is haunted by the fear that something will happen to her five-year-old. The husband refuses to fly, and is horrified to find that she took a plane to Baden. Unfortunately neither one is very sympathetic to the other's fears; instead of comforting each other they suffer separately...