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One can argue about whether this style of basketball reflects only the general tendency of lower-income people to self-advertise conspicuously, as described above, or reflects also the unique historical travails of American blacks.
The travails of the French franc in the '20s were thoroughly modern, and the speculative attacks that brought down the Bretton Woods system of exchange rates in the early '70s were almost as big, compared with the size of the economies involved, as the biggest recent blowouts.
An article mocks the travails of shahtoosh addicts.
The story of the travails of a brainy single Jewish female in New York is lauded as a "wry modern fable" (Merle Rubin, the Wall Street Journal ) that shows off Ozick's flair for Isaac Bashevis Singer-style magical realism.
"Unarmed Warriors" describes the travails of the International Committee of the Red Cross.