Word: laboredness
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After ten minutes he could no longer muster the strength to hold on. His breathing became labored, and his heart was beating at a noticeably slower rate. The color of his skin, starting at his feet, began to lighten as it became starved for oxygen and blood. We watched death...
The suicide in 1885 of Adams' mordantly witty wife Clover left him lost in darkness. "Fate at last has smashed the life out of me," he wrote to a friend, "but for twelve years I had everything I most wanted on earth." He labored on to complete the nine...
Author-Screenwriter William Goldman, 51, has been around long enough to remember the bad old image of his trade. He began his career in 1957 as a writer of respectable fiction, far from the siren song of show business, and has published twelve novels. But he also labored successfully in...
Poet Judith Thurman, 36, labored to form her first effort at biography, the scrupulous and elegant Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, along accepted Freudian lines. The author, so goes the convention, must interpret her subject psychologically for the reader. Thurman balked at the role of therapist. "Psychoanalyzing is...
In Washington, Donovan's reputation for disregarding budgets, organization tables and other bureaucratic niceties won him no friends. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and General George Strong, head of military intelligence, labored to eliminate the oss as a threat to their own intelligence functions. After the war, President Harry...