Word: suffered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months against smoky fires which smoldered at the foundations of state. The baleful glow did not light them sharply; as they swayed and grappled it was only possible to tell that they were locked in a strange and merciless combat and that one, or both, would inevitably suffer a total and deathlike disgrace...
...Nagasaki's Urakami baseball field, packed with thousands, the Emperor said a few words: "I do not know how to offer sympathy to Nagasaki, which had to suffer the atom bomb. We should work with all our might to make a peaceful Japan which will be the cornerstone of world peace and culture." As the Emperor finished, a man stepped in front of the crowd. "Tenno Heika banzai-Long live His Majesty, the Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags...
Holding two drives instead of one and a new allocation system are the major changes. This will present two catch-all drives, instead of the present system of one big drive in the fall and sporadic individual charities later in the year. The new arrangement will suffer from the lack of incentive in a second Council drive compared to the special appeal that was successful for the World Student Service Fund and the displaced persons. But it is hoped that allowing the student to divide his contribution during the year will increase the total amount...
...tenants have tiny, scabrous stone cottages, with squealing pigs on the first floor and families of six to ten in the single room above. Most suffer from malaria. Each tenant tills up to 15 hectares, pays roughly one-third of his income in rental. The average wheat crop is about four bushels per hectare (the U.S. average is 45 bushels). The soil is badly eroded. The tenants have never heard of insecticides; few know of any fertilizer other than manure, which they rarely use. They cannot afford plows; instead they hammer at the wretched soil with picks...
...magazine's preface, the Liberal Club editors said, "If progressive students, in defense of their own rights, must resort to a stratagem, let those who occasioned it suffer the odium..." The April, 1948, issue was the only one published by the Club, and there was no further agitation for lifting the official...