Word: hardships
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...worst hardship was worrying about his seven children. One daughter died last fall; a son was killed in battle on Feb. 28; two other sons were reported missing...
...Author. At 57, Edna Ferber is white-haired, handsome and still single. She attributes her fabulous success to the fact that "I write about fundamental things-love, marriage, hardship, vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book...
...rain and the mud were warm and there was little hardship. There were no bread lines-the rice crop had been plentiful-and there were thousands of new civilian jobs behind the lines. Men who had toiled at forced labor under the Japanese now worked at handsome pay for Philippine pesos pegged at prewar value (50? in U.S. currency). Churches opened again, for worship and as hospitals for the wounded Americans. There was a new and thriving trade in throat-searing Philip pine "whiskey" at ten U.S. dollars a quart. And though most Filipino girls are devout and moral Catholics...
...enormous increase of registration . . . forcibly brings to the front the necessity of changing election from a weekday to Sunday. At the present time it is not only a hardship and an inconvenience to thousands of men and women with business connections to vote, but it also causes a disruption to normal business activities...
Britain's hardship was organized, disciplined. For themselves, Britons saw no prospect of a violent swing in any direction. But Britons themselves knew that what happened in continental Europe would one day affect Britain. Said the News Chronicle's editor Gerald Barry: This has become the common man's war. Man is trying to find the equation between individual liberty and economic order. Communal control . . . without too great a sacrifice of personal freedom seems to be the common denominator of all resistance movements...