Word: laboredness
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He left before sunup the next morning. Though the moon was still shining brightly on the wings of airplanes on the field, and the mountain air was chill, a thousand people were on hand to bid him goodbye. As the Sacred Cow labored off the runways, Harry Truman was worrying...
A great grandstand rose at Mexico City's Balbuena Airport. Along the road to town, workers paved the walks and turfed the unkempt fields. In the city, little groups of men labored past midnight, filling in every last crack in the pavement that Harry Truman would ride over. Every...
In London the family had been sedulously boning up on South African history, politics, economics and the Afrikaans language (they could all now say a cheery "How do you do?"-Hoe gaan dit?-to their hosts) while Britain's leading designers, Hartnell, Molyneux and Thaarup, labored feverishly on trousseaux...
Not in Heaven Either. Off the floor the Congressmen also labored. House committees, finally organized under predominantly conservative G.O.P. leadership, gathered in committee rooms to discuss legislation. Ways & Means, under Minnesota's Harold Knutson, whipped out a bill to continue indefinitely the $1.2 billion excise taxes, terminated as of...
Perhaps it is too much to expect that the "Progressive's" first voyage into the non-political field would be entirely successful. Two short, unsigned poems, "Dream Work" and "Projections," are bright and clever, but a short story, "The Damned," and a review of the French film, "It Happened at...