Word: laboredness
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The Players. The veterans with the know-how got off to a better start than the recruits. Last year's pitching stars picked up where they left off. Cincinnati's Ed Heusser showed off his lowest earned-run average (2.38) in the National League by shutting out Pittsburgh...
It was nearly midnight in London. Sentry-boxed Downing Street lay quiet save for the tramp of guards. Inside No. 10 a taut secretary hurried to the Prime Minister's door, knocked impatiently, turned the glass knob. Winston Churchill stood beside his desk, reading a sheaf of reports. The...
All over Bradley's front, supply lines were strained to the snapping point. Endless truck columns labored to keep the infantry going, and the forward armor was supplied largely by air. One day C-47 transports hauled up 3,000 tons of supplies, taking wounded and liberated prisoners back...
The Germans themselves fought desperately enough. Vienna was the gateway to the Austrian and Bavarian Alps. It would have to hold if the Nazi hope of retreat to an Alpine redoubt was to be something more than the last act of a suicide. The Germans had labored mightily to build...
But as American medical men labored to save the injured, the mood among the survivors changed. Fear diminished. An old man who had killed his daughter wept with bitter remorse.