Word: toils
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...moved from a tepee into a still unfinished A-frame house that took him $1.500 and twelve months to build. Most couples are in their upper 20s. are married, have children, own their own homes, have a deep respect for property rights and believe in the value of honest toil. Although the concept of complete sexual freedom retains its followers, it plays only a minor role in Lama society today. Indeed, reports DeVoss. ' were it not for their long hair, predilection for grass and rejection of the American political system. Lama residents could pass for solid, middle-class citizens...
...industry is often painted as the chief villain by conservationists, but pollution is hardly unique to capitalist nations. It is often worse in Communist countries, where technocrats toil to boost industrial production with little thought to environmental consequences...
...young Americans have done more to "work within the system" than a growing band of lawyers who toil overtime honing a new tool of social reform -the public-interest law firm. Convinced that established law firms have hired the nation's best legal minds to concentrate on serving rich corporate clients, the young lawyers have started their own firms to fight for consumer, conservation and other under-represented interests...
...MOST MEN," wrote Henry David Thoreau, "even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously course labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that." Beneath his countrymen's amusements, Thoreau saw "a stereotyped but unconscious despair which permitted no relaxation from the young nation's frenzied strivings...
...persuade the Rumanians to accept a new paragraph recognizing the Brezhnev Doctrine, which justifies Soviet intervention anywhere in the "socialist commonwealth." Ceausescu rightly saw the doctrine as a threat to his foreign policy of "active coexistence" with both friends and enemies of the Kremlin, and adamantly refused to agree toil...