Word: laboredness
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Can-Can (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Abe Burrows) is a period musical in the good but also the bad sense of the word. It often captures the rakish, even the Lautrec-ish animation of Paris in the '905, but it has often, too, the feeble plotting...
"For the sake of historical accuracy," wrote MacArthur, "I was never consulted directly or indirectly with reference to the supply program under discussion." Brushing off Pace's testimony as "labored" and "completely fantastic," MacArthur argued that "optimistic views" had nothing to do with 1950 decisions on ammunition: "As a...
Lost in the political wilderness since the death of its inspirer, Jan Smuts, the opposition United Party fought back with hot charges that Malan threatens democracy and mocks the rule of law. "Vote now," was their slogan, "so that you may vote again." United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss, who...
Not since the High Priests of Thebes labored lovingly over the corpses of Libyan Pharaohs has there been such big news in the embalming business. In Manhattan last week, Dr. Carlos José Rodriguez Fernández, a Venezuelan dentist, announced that he has concocted "a fluid which will destroy...
Camphor & Leeches. By their own elaborately detailed case history, the doctors did everything possible for their prophet. When his breathing became more than usually labored, they clapped an oxygen mask on him. Since he was comatose and could take no food, they fed him a glucose solution through a vein...