Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other major city in the war would suffer as many civilian deaths as Leningrad. Not Dresden, which was virtually flattened by bombers and where 30,000 died in one night of air raids. Not even Hiroshima, where about 100,000 were killed by a single bomb. In Leningrad the official Soviet death toll for the two-winter-long siege was 632,253, mostly of starvation. Other sources put the figure at more than 1 million...
...area codes are triggering identity crises. Onetime 415s in the east Bay Area feel disconnected as 510 holders. In L.A. former 213s in Beverly Hills suffer from haut insecurity with their new 310s. Look for a shift in real estate values...
...funding is drying up, and the inner cities are going to suffer the most," asserts Ed Fox, publisher of Track & Field News. "We've already seen a significant drop-off of athletes from places like Oakland, which used to be rich in young talent." Brooks Johnson, former athletic director at Stanford, says some fundamental economic choices must be made if California is to continue producing sports stars at its usual rate. "It's volleyball or vandalism. Either we invest in our youth, or we are going to ruin whole segments of the population...
...teenager wrongly accused of murdering a classmate. In one scene, Mom pays a consoling visit to the dead girl's parents. "Your daughter murdered my baby!" screams the mother in reply. "Now there's only one thing I'm living for, and that is to watch you suffer!" Thanks, and have a nice...
Lisbeth B. Schorr, a lecturer in the department of social medicine at the Medical school, warned that unless the children of America become a top priority, the whole country will suffer...