Word: laboredness
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Station technicians labored all last night, and will be working all day today, to install a long-awaited frequency-control crystal. The crystal, ordered nearly a month ago, had to be constructed specially by a Kansas City firm and arrived early last evening.
As a good salesman, Gallostra loved tall stories and long draughts of golden Manzanilla wine; he made friends with Spanish refugees as well as with Franco-loving aristocrats in the new world. In Mexico, officially registered as a "tourist," Gallostra granted Spanish visas, even lent money to Mexicans and to...
The President, as was to be expected, sat down to a fine burst of applause. But the speech, one on which his advisers had labored for days (it referred to "the people" 25 different times, and to Franklin Roosevelt only once), did not fire up the crowd the way Harry...
The next 26 finishers were either Swedes, Finns or Norwegians (the best a U.S. competitor could do was finish 46th), but Railroadman Slaattvik was not among them. His hopes of becoming Nordic champion melted long before he labored home in 36th place. The man he was afraid of, Finland'...
In time his fame spread beyond Columbia. He saw his subject as not just a chronicle of battles and politics, but a web of economics, of manners, morals, ideas and ideals as well. Each summer, working from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day, he labored on his own writings...