Word: hardships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...falls in love with a young man, she has little time for Agostino. Idling about the beach, he gets in with a bunch of young toughs, sons of the waiters and fishermen. They know a world which well-to-do Agostino has never even glimpsed, a world of hardship and cynicism just beneath poverty-stricken Italy's thin skin of luxury and pleasure...
...Price. The "victory" cost each of Chrysler's 89,000 workers more than three months of hardship and an average of $1,038 in lost wages. It cost about 50,000 workers in Chrysler supplier plants nearly $12 million in paychecks, although they were not on strike, and it deprived Chrysler and its dealers of 518,000 new cars and trucks worth more than $1 billion. It cost Reuther, normally one of the adroitest of negotiators and ablest of labor leaders, considerable prestige; there was strong dissatisfaction in his own ranks because of his arbitrary handling of the strike...
When anxious Republican policymakers asked his opinion on farm price supports he replied: "I would say to the farmers, 'The price of freedom is the same to you as it is to everyone else-a little hardship when times are adverse...
...Frances Leighton give excellent unsentimental performances of Ronnie's father and sister. Arthur Winslow spends his health and, with his daughter's approval, her dowry to clear the family honor. Yet there is never a hint of hand-wringing or "What-Shall-We-Do?" histronics. The feeling of continued hardship is worked in by the skillful use of gloomy, gray photography...
...Godin, a shy, intense parish priest who decided that a pastor was virtually helpless in reaching those who did not come to church. He proposed that the church set up a mission to work among Frenchmen with the same dedicated zeal that sends missionaries to spend their lives in hardship in heathen lands. Paris' late Cardinal Suhard and the French archbishops set up the Mission de France in 1941; the Mission de Paris was founded...