Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such children suffer from disorder only so far as they have trouble keeping all of their observations in order, and from disease only so far as their extraordinary acuity makes it difficult for them to integrate into "ordinary" society. Many of the so-called ADD children I've encountered, though on the fringes of social acceptance, have been among the most energetic, imaginative and interactive kids I've ever met. But unfortunately, creativity is no substitute for conventional competency...
...four Haitian police officers for no apparent reason. But then his family complained that Haiti's U.S.-trained police should not be in the business of murdering civilians. This, they quickly discovered, was a mistake. First came the warnings: if the relatives didn't shut up, they might suffer the same fate. Then came the threats: one afternoon a few officers caught up with Charles' cousin and said he was going to be arrested. When he fled, they shot...
...book's epigraph, Kelly quotes Seamus Heaney: "Humans suffer, they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard. No poem of play or song can fully right a wrong inflicted and endured." Indeed, Payback comes to no conclusion, offering no closure in the lives of Billy and Paddy. In one sense, it is very frustrating not to know whether they die or how they choose to live. Yet in the bleak, violent, greedy New York City of 1987, from water tunnels seven hundred feet below the bustle of Broadway to overcrowded bars of Hell's Kitchen, humans suffered...
Everything to play for, then. Who would crack first? Sadly, B.C. would suffer in more ways than one. Though LaCouture's elbow to the head of Chris Masters deserved a penalty, it was Masters who left the ice--unconscious on a stretcher...
Chain mail is generally abhorred by system administrators all over. The messages usually demand that once read, they be passed to at least 10 people or else the reader will suffer bad luck. While it appears that most people disregard these silly threats, a new form of chain mail is snaking its way across the Internet, and it is more troublesome because it strikes a chord of either fear or sympathy in the hearts of its readers...