Word: laboredness
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Perhaps the hardest look at an unpleasant dilemma came in the Timmy documentary. The family was shown cradling, criticizing and coddling the ten-year-old child, triumphing every labored step of the way over tragedy. It is a true story, told without sentimentality-and all the more dramatic for that...
Karl Marx labored single-mindedly for 15 years to produce his monumental Das Kapital, and all the while he was in pain. He suffered from an enlarged liver, hemorrhoids, recurrent eye infections, insomnia and boils. But Marx's bitter prophecy that the bourgeoisie would "have cause to remember my...
For Sandburg, the head of the family was Abraham Lincoln, who embodied the qualities that the poet so greatly admired, and in some measure possessed: honesty, wit, an unpretentious and even awkward eloquence. For 15 years, Sandburg labored on his monumental six-volume biography of Lincoln. He won a Pulitzer...
So successful was this undertaking that it was decided to conduct a fund drive to enable the College to memorialize the production on film. The faculty, administration and student body labored hard with a professional technical staff.
"The Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive," says Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol. "Hopeful ever of redemption, we labored to return to the land of our fathers and to set foundations for the resurgence of an exiled folk. We made our arduous way to the...