Word: laboredness
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Look-Alike. The bank's least hidden asset is its first president, a plump, articulate Chilean named Felipe Herrera. Once a Socialist, and at 38 still prone to consider banking economics as mere means to social ends, Herrera has labored nonstop to get the bank going ever since he...
Atrocities were not all on one side. The camisards terrorized the Catholic countryside. They rushed into battle singing psalms ("When those devils began singing their dreadful songs, we couldn't control our soldiers," complained an officer of the King). Roland kept their morale high by his Robin Hood exploits...
But in the Senate, the Powell Amendment would have brought on a Southern filibuster. Had Kennedy labored to get the amendment dropped in conference committee, he would have antagonized Negro voters. Kennedy was content to see the bill die, passed the word to Trimble to do nothing. He thereby avoided...
If we're gonna be spectators, then let's get up in the stands where we belong." For Temple and his girls, the path to the 1960 Olympics has been paved with hard work and Spartan self-denial. Himself a Tennessee State sprinter until he hurt his leg...
End of a Legend? Back in the minors, Dalkowski labored nervously while a succession of anxious managers concocted bizarre schemes to improve his accuracy. They tried pitching him only 15 ft. from the plate, gradually lengthening the distance, only to discover that Dalkowski's wildness increased in direct ratio...