Word: laboredness
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Seaborne Uncles. The U.S. labored to arrange a nonviolent transition. On the Dominican side, several members of the wealthy Trujillo family-but not Son-and-Heir Ramfis-were to go into exile. Police brutality would be curbed (though Castroite political groups would continue to be suppressed). Large chunks of the...
All four parts are played in high comic style. Actress Presle portrays without pity the labored cuteness, the varicose ardors of the nymph at 40. Actress Seberg achieves exactly the right matte shade of skin, the look of slightly tainted meat that suggests and ever so slightly caricatures the girl...
Author Calisher, whose elliptical New Yorker stories have brought her a small but fanatical following, has labored for six years on this first novel. Unhappily, she has brought forth a mousse: a gelatinous concoction inflated with whipped-in wind. The theme is "false entry into another person's life...
The 87th had labored hard and long-longer, in fact, than any Congress since the Korean War session of 1951. It voted the biggest appropriations in U.S. peacetime history-some $95.8 billion. But the distinguishing feature of the 87th Congress lay not in the hours it worked or the money...
The group has been invited to Europe three times (it is now on an eight-week tour), made a highly successful appearance at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. Although it has always labored under a deficit, times are getting better: Stravinsky heard the singers in Los Angeles in 1959...