Word: laboredness
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At daily meetings with his ministers, Franco labored to set things aright. The government decided to take over the rice crop and sell it at a fixed price; price ceilings were put on dried beans, peas, lentils (the four Spanish food staples); and price "supervision" was decreed for fish, vegetables...
George Albert Smith was born poor and grew up proud. As a plain, gawky kid in Salt Lake City, he always remembered that he bore one of the most illustrious names in Mormonism: his grandfather had been a cousin of Founder Joseph Smith. George worked hard to live up to...
No Bargain-Counter Security. While Douglas labored, the Senate debate continued. "If the members of Congress have a shred of courage and patriotism left," said Indiana's Isolationist William E. Jenner, "they will lay down an ultimatum to the President demanding either a declaration of war or the bringing...
Kilgore, who has never been willing to consider the W.S.J. as merely a financial paper, has labored long & hard to make it much more than that. Like many a W.S.J. staffer, he has never worked on any other paper, went to the W.S.J. as a copyreader right out of De...
But the temperas, mostly records of the Pennsylvania countryside and Maine seacoast he knows best, are Wyeth's chief work. The worst of them look unnecessarily labored, but the best make him a candidate for the mantle of the great Pennsylvania realist Thomas Eakins. That dour master specialized in...