Word: laboredness
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In his determination to avert a nationwide steel strike last week, Lyndon Johnson tried just about everything. He summoned both sides from Pittsburgh, installed them in Room 2751 of the Executive Office Building across the street from the White House, and posted guards outside the drab chamber to keep newsmen...
In a way, the opposed tableaux - riot ing and registering - were interwoven. Denied for nearly a century the en franchisement that was vouchsafed them by the 15th Amendment, deprived as well of all the benefits that flow from political power, the Deep South's Ne groes have for decades...
Between corporate assignments, Fortas labored with intense dedication on nonremunerative civil-liberties cases. In the early '50s, he successfully defended Johns Hopkins Scholar Owen Lattimore on charges of perjury. (Lattimore, testifying before a Senate committee, denied supporting Communist causes.) In 1954, Fortas persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
Playwright Tennessee Williams, 51, who likes to claim that his deepest compassion is reserved for things "not meant to win," feels very compassionate about The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. After having been stopped with it twice on Broadway, in 1963 and again in 1964, Williams took...
Like some ponderous snake, the long convoy labored up the steep switchbacks on Route 19. Guards nervously rode rifle atop every truck. Three hours out of coastal Qui Nhon, the vehicles pulled into Mang Yang pass-favorite ambush point for the Viet Cong on the 100-mile highway to Pleiku...