Mr. Lekhner lives on Social Security and other benefits, including a small pension given his wife because she endured Nazi persecution; she and her family and other Jews were forced to live in camps in the Ukrainian city of Mogilev-Podolsky.
Her disappearance in 1937 and its attendant mystery account for some of the ongoing allure, but she endures because she was a pioneer whose adventures went beyond personal aggrandizement.
Because she had endured so much, her death carried a special sting, Ms. Robert said.
Meadors was brought on board partly because she had endured W.N.B.A. start-ups as a coach with the Charlotte Sting and director of scouting for the Miami Sol.
Flaherty is intrigued by the neurological dimensions of writing in general, not because she has endured writer's block (although she has) but because she has gone through episodes of its opposite: hypergraphia, or compulsive writing.
"She got to Washington to a large degree because she had endured great personal tragedy and then had become an American icon for gun-control legislation and victims' rights," said Desmond M. Ryan, a Republican lobbyist.
She endures the pain, because her family depends on her for survival.
But she endures, she said, because a sporting event is the one place where it should not matter if one is Sunni or Shiite.
It is horrifying not only because of the sadistic violence she endured, but also because of how easily she seemed to slip into this spiral of depravity and how difficult she found it to get out.
Because of the circumstances she endured with the health care system, I lost my daughter".
