Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council. In the Senate, Arkansas' John McClellan and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey have sponsored a measure authorizing establishment of a department of science and technology run by a secretary with Cabinet rank. Currently these proposals for another Government agency are downrated because the agency would have to undergo the lengthy labor pains of its own birth before it could even effectively contemplate the problems of space...
...party -such specks of success are the result of the party's blood and heart." At 18, armed with a party recommendation, Liu left off writing about the heady world of production quotas, collective labor and agricultural cooperatives, entrained for Peking University to "study life more penetratingly, and undergo self-transformation." After one year Liu gave up the university to return to Hopei and "throw himself into the perpetual fires of struggling life...
...marriage, along with the fate of Verlaine as a poet, was decided by the appearance in Paris of the weirdest wonder boy known to literature. At 17, Arthur Rimbaud was already a poet of genius. He had a face like an angel's and a satanic determination to undergo what he called "a long, immense and deliberate derangement of all the senses . . . seeking every possible experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with sharp cries...
Life in the Monastery is not easy. Candidates are expected to perform whatever chores and duties are assigned to them. They undergo all types of humiliation to learn to live simply for the glory of God. "Obedience, humility, and fervour in prayer," are the goals which the Society seeks...
...FREEDOM TO REFORM THE CHURCH: The church in every age must undergo reformation and "boldly face the mass of revolutionary facts of her time. Among these are anti-Christian ideologies, political turmoil, social ruthlessness, ethical relativism ... In this situation the Church cannot be content with timid lamentations...