Word: laboredness
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A Key to Heaven. Over the years, the Teamsters' Boss Beck has labored mightily to achieve a standing of eminent respectability. Unlike his goon-squad lieutenants, he does not smoke, drink, play cards, shoot pool, follow the horses or bestow nylons indiscreetly. Beck and his Teamsters spend lavishly for...
Though pockets of prejudice remain, the West German government has labored to atone for the dead by its treatment of the living: by helping to finance the building of synagogues to replace the 300 burned down by the Nazis; by paying every Jew who was in a concentration camp 150...
Another though less important reason for delay is the almost poetic complexity of Vatican policies as exemplified in the Montini-Tardini situation. Monsignors Giovanni Montini and Domenico Tardini labored long in the Vatican as equal advisers to the Pope until Pius XII appointed Montini Archbishop of Milan two years ago...
The Secret Passion. It was the beginning of the end for friendly, lonely George Metesky. For 16 years, on and off, he had labored over his lathe with patient care, creating what he called "units"-short lengths of pipe containing gunpowder, a watch mechanism and a flashlight battery. The units...
The libretto, by Prokofiev and his wife, Poetess Mira Mendelsohn, arbitrarily hacked great chunks out of the Tolstoy epic without ever linking them in true dramatic tension. Tolstoy's own brilliant literary counterpoint-in which he switched from peace to war scenes and back-was abandoned. All the peace...