Word: laboredness
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Seldom had Belgrade seen more bustle and toil. Wrecking crews felled whole rows of shabby old tenements as if scything corn. Gangs labored round the clock to transform gaping foundations into spruce little parks. Everywhere, the police rounded up known drunks, idlers and beggars and sent them off to the...
Breasting the tides of public life, British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, 55, has been known to take his mind off political worries by acquiring an occasional painting. Last week a London gossip columnist delighted in detailing a recent Gaitskell purchase: a nude painting of attractive Lady Coldstream, 26, sometime...
In Washington, London, Paris and Bonn, Western diplomats worked painstakingly over the wording of separate but cautiously coordinated memorandums that will answer Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a German peace treaty by year's end. Weighing each word with infinite care, Washington labored long on its own...
In the Dutch town of Joure last week, 16 young Germans-eleven boys and five girls from 16 to 24-were hard at work building a youth center and studying Hebrew in preparation for work in Israel. In the French village of Taizé, 30 young Germans were working on...
Several workmen labored all afternoon on the roof of Widener Library and bored holes, at carefully measured ten foot intervals, into the ledge around the interior court. In these holes were inserted poles with strings dangling from the end. At the end of each string there is a nine inch...