Word: suffered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while a large number of reclassified men, and those who have applied with them, will suffer from the reallocation, the majority of students will be the gainers, since many undergraduates who had swelled the Senior section because of their numerical class were actually found to be underclassmen and hence were moved out of the Senior part of the cheering section...
Others awakened to experience the same awful choking sensation. By morning, as the fourth day of fog began, more were dead and scores of people were complaining of difficulty in breathing. Doctors, hurrying to answer calls, quickly concluded that the fog was lethal mainly to elderly people suffering from asthma or heart trouble. But they were puzzled about its effects. Victims seemed to suffer partial paralysis of the diaphragm. Nothing but oxygen seemed to bring relief...
...expect, as he had in the days of Coolidge, that prosperity would go on forever. He hoped, however, that a nation as productive as the U.S. would not have to suffer the kind of humiliating poverty it knew during the last depression. He realized that the country might be at war with Soviet Russia within a decade, a year, or-if an "incident" occurred-within a month. But experience had toughened him; he catalogued the Russians with death and taxes, put his faith in the Marshall Plan, crossed his fingers and hoped for the best...
Over the committee leadership's protests, they directed members of their Americanism committee to appoint themselves as educational vigilantes, to keep close watch on the nation's teachers. In teaching the differences between U.S. democracy and "the Communist dictatorship," the resolution stated firmly, "our system must not suffer but be exalted...
While defeating Holy Cross, 20 to 13, and decisively winning their first game since the opener, the Harvards merely indicated that Cambridge would suffer an cruption a lot sooner than Worcester...