Word: laboredness
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Joseph Stalin had decided, probably months before it started, that the goal of his winter offensive was Berlin, with an end to the German war by spring. To that task the Red Army labored long, carefully building the tremendous weight of arms that this week was grinding over the enemy...
Hopkins has been in Washington almost as long as Franklin Roosevelt; he arrived ten weeks after the 1933 inauguration. In the early days, as administrator of CWA and WPA, he worked in the glare of white-hot publicity, took the jabs and gave back in kind. Of late, he has...
He blithely guessed it would take him three years, and when a friend pointed out that 40 French Academicians had labored 40 years to write a French dictionary, Johnson boomed: "Sir, forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three is to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman...
"It was in 1933 that we really had our last chance to bring order out of the chaos of international money exchange and trade. The London Economic Conference had been labored over for months by Republican Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. . . . Mr. Roosevelt deliberately scuttled that conference. That was...
Winthrop Williams Aldrich, the 58-year-old president of the Chase National, world's largest bank, last week gave the U.S. his considered opinion on the Bretton Woods currency and world bank plans (TIME, July 31). His opinion: junk the plans, on which experts of 45 nations labored for...