Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that time he was a convert to the guerrilla strategies of Mao Tse-tung, the new chairman of the party's military committee. When these theories were attacked by other Communist leaders, Teng was ousted from office?the first of three times he was to suffer this ignominious fate...
...This is a generation of women on whom the rules have been changed," says Stewart. "When they find that the things they have treasured all their lives, helping their husbands achieve and raising children, are considered worthless, they suffer a terrible identity crisis." The first step toward economic self-sufficiency is to rebuild devastated selfesteem. "We have to sell the woman both to herself and to the community," says Sommers...
...Kremlin's reactions are hard to measure, but Western diplomats in Moscow agreed with Carter's assessment that the Soviets had long expected the U.S. move, and that, as the President said, this week's SALT talks "will not suffer any adverse effect." If all goes well, the Carter-Brezhnev summit is tentatively set for sometime during the week...
Although Administration economists correctly point out that the poor are inflation's first victims, blacks still suffer an 11.5% rate of unemployment, only recently down from 14%. Joblessness among black teenagers stands at 35%, and blacks still make up a disproportionate share of the nation's poor...
...prying people out of their diurnal' ruts into unaccustomed minglings, new communions, fresh gestures. The purpose of it all, undeclared and unsentimental, is to arouse a general reaffirmation of the commonality of life as the year's shortest day comes and goes. While emotionally fragile individuals may suffer special aggravations as a result, the temperamental thrash that most people feel is often no deeper than their resistance to being nudged out of narrow everyday patterns. The pressure of the season is only the mute wish of a society that yearns, against all odds, for a sense of wholeness...