Word: forbearance
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...fostering of the self-respect and dignity of the individual lies at the foundation of a labor economy in a democracy. Our aim must be the achievement of a standard of living compatible with that dignity. . . . No nation has as yet fully achieved that objective. . . . The Commission cannot forbear the hope that its report will make some modest contribution to the material and moral progress of the conditions of labor in Bolivia...
...them "there emerges above all the vivid figure of Lenin himself." Lenin's letters are like business letters. But it was a big business he was about, and as his scheme slowly progresses from small successes to failure to near-success to triumph, even businessmen readers will scarce forbear to cheer. Irritation, anger when schemes go wrong or partners fail him, Lenin frequently shows; personal feeling, almost never. The letters to his wife, Krupskaya, and references to her before and after marriage, are as impersonally businesslike as all the others. Only in his letters to his mother does...
...tears for the nature of things, Queen Marie cannot forbear to drop a timely one on the catafalque of Royalty...
...letter of Charles Edward Thomas, of Indianapolis, in your issue of Sept. 14, about South Carolina, is so strangely well-informed, so keen in accurate discernment, that I cannot forbear to write you saying so. Only one who knew his subject would have quoted from John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions, written at the Earl of Shaftesbury's request, for the Lords Proprietors of the Colony, the warning against a ''numerous democracy." It may be that a too numerous democracy is a present-day affliction also beyond South Carolina's borders...
...back to the Tower and much troubled again with my eyes. I do fear that one day I must forbear to write my journal it taxing my sight exceedingly, and then again I know my days are few, but God prepare I will continue until the year is done. Thence to bed, sleeping on my side, being very sore...