ordeal
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Appeared in the December 15, 2025, print edition as 'Brown Shooting Survivors Tell of Ordeal'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
In “The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson,” he profiled the next-to-last loyalist governor of Massachusetts, a well-meaning public servant who badly miscalculated the colonists’ fervor and became the revolution’s Hamlet.
From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2020
“The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson,” a sympathetic biography of the colonial-era Massachusetts governor who sided with the British, was published in 1974, not long before President Nixon’s resignation.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2020
Storm Large: Holiday Ordeal The Pink Martini vocalist performs seasonal favorites and more in this show for adults.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2019
It was something he hadn't expected; it was an honor, and it added to his determination to succeed in the Ordeal, to bring credit to his adopted clan.
From Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel by Wilson, Ann
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