Word: laboredness
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"Men, women and children and bullocks and groaning carts were plodding eastward and westward beneath the autumn skies and nights of the cloven Punjab; past unharvested fields, past empty villages and eviscerated villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward...
The musical score gives an added height to this already great motion picture. Max Steiner composed background music that is not only deep and appropriate, but at the most dramatic times intensifies the rhythms of speech, producing an effect that few other movies have paralleled. The visual effects do not...
Even now a professor emeritus, certainly one who is a professor of physics, should not despair. Every indication warns that in the impending World War III only those who have mastered "the intricacies of research" can become the directors of physical might. Then will the obscure have their recognition, reward...
Recently Gromyko discovered that his labored and pragmatic sense of humor makes good copy for him. Sample Gromykoisms:
In Burlington, Vt., Governor Ernest W. Gibson, a city fellow, bravely entered a cow-milking contest, labored before 5,000 spectators, came out third & last. The winner, who milked with one hand, could show a half-pail. The Governor's two-handed take: two cups.