Word: laboredness
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"I . . . solemnly call upon General Franco . . . to relinquish power . . . ." In Paris moderate Miguel Maura, one time Minister of the Interior, declared that most Spaniards were opposed to the monarchy. In London, astute Juan Negrin. the Republic's last Premier, labored quietly for a Republican comeback.
Through the night, the nitrate-laden Mapocho labored up the Chilean coast. The ship's bell tolled once-half-past midnight. Suddenly, explosions in the hold bounced the dinky, 63-year-old ship about. Flames burst above deck, firing lifeboats before they could be launched. The trapped crew and...
Army engineer detachments, 65% of them Negro troops, could stand by the Ledo-Burma Road and proudly watch the supply trucks roll up to China. Through two rain-lashed monsoon seasons they had labored, helped string an all-weather pavement over 1,044 miles of mountain jungle, helped build some...
At the start, the negotiators discovered that the Yalta agreement to broaden the Warsaw Government meant one thing to Molotov, another to Clark Kerr and Harriman. The Commissar insisted that the agreement required just a few changes in the Government, all subject to veto by the present Warsaw Poles. The...
At the Moscow conference the Big Three had proclaimed their intention to help a "free and independent Austria . . . find that political and economic security which is the only basis for lasting peace." But at that time the Big Three labored under the false hope that Austria might rise against her...