Word: laboredness
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Last week death came to the best loved man in Brazil: Pedro Ernesto Baptista. Years ago, when Getulio Vargas began his revolution, Pedro Ernesto, a surgeon, used his own hospital's ambulance to run machine guns to the Vargas contingents massing at Minas Geraes. When Vargas became President, Pedro...
In a Navy building across from Arlington Cemetery swiftly labored last week the first ruler of the WAVES, Lieut. Commander Mildred Helen McAfee. Her job: to organize and boss 11,000 Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service. The job was big: Director Oveta Hobby had spent eleven months planning the...
In summer, the Army's mountain trooper sheds his skis and white suit-and his glamor. Then he looks like any other soldier except for a cocky ski cap, sole reminder of the days when he whooshed down slopes and tramped the peaks on snowshoes. Last week, somewhere in...
In her first six books,* the late Constance Rourke revealed something of the abundance and variety of American folk culture. She labored to bridge the cleavage between the fine arts and the popular and practical arts of common life. When she died, last year, she was a little like a...
Somewhere west of Cairo, about two weeks ago, a few U.S. airmen and bombers appeared at an R.A.F. airdrome. Under Colonel Harry A. Halverson of Boone, Iowa they moved into stone quarters in the desert, shared an R.A.F. mess, labored mightily in the heat to prepare for their forays. First...