Word: laboredness
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This work won the 1960 National Book Award for fiction and launched a career that has seen its share of fluctuations. Readers and critics kept expecting the fresh voice of that first book, while Roth labored to expand his range. Letting Go was a solid conventional novel about graduate-school...
That understated response to the greatest honor in science was typical of the intensely private, no-nonsense researcher. Genetics is a science founded by a monk-19th century Augustinian Gregor Mendel-and McClintock is in every sense his disciple. For half a century she has labored in almost monastic solitude...
In 1963, in a 40th anniversary greeting, President John Kennedy thought he detected in a maturing TIME "an occasional hint of fallibility." Well, yes. But TIME still knows what it knows. We are still in the business of making judgments and we still do not claim objectivity, which from the...
At Tempelhof Airport the occasional shiny C-54s and many battered C-47s landed at the daylight rate of one every three minutes. Scores of ten-ton trucks rolled out to meet them. One hundred and fifty G.I.s and German workers labored 24 hours a day to get them unloaded...
French President Francois Mitterrand's plan to cut his country's unemployment rate seemed engagingly simple. If employees worked fewer hours, jobs could be spread among more people. Mitterrand's Socialist administration has thus pared France's 40-hour work week to 39 hours since taking...