Word: laboredness
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Politically, the timing of last week's verdict could hardly have been worse for the beleaguered President, coming as millions of American taxpayers labored against the April 15 deadline for reporting their own incomes for 1973. As the Atlanta Journal harshly put it in a three-sentence editorial: "The White...
For three weeks, the Government had labored mightily with 24 witnesses to establish its charges of conspiracy and obstructing justice against onetime Nixon Cabinet Officers John Mitchell and Maurice Stans. The prosecution seemed to be getting nowhere until last week, when two former high-ranking federal officials who had been...
Despite the repetitions, the discursiveness, the sometimes labored irony, Švejk/Hašek speaks vividly to a new generation that is disillusioned with power, glory and war. The reader gets the feeling that he can begin anywhere in the book, stop anywhere, and still get the essence of it. For...
GETTING IT. Coal is often difficult and dangerous to mine. In 1969, Congress passed the National Coal Health and Safety Act to force improvements in mine conditions. These were vividly recalled by Arnold Miller, president of the United Mine Workers, in a recent speech. Old miners, said Miller, "labored their...
Throughout the half-hour sermon, Graham never once mentioned the campaign that was supposed to have been the evangelical catchword of the year: Key 73 (TIME, Feb. 19). As labored over for six years by Graham's organization and more than 150 other participating groups, Key 73 was intended...