Word: hardships
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...Long, dark months of trial and tribulation lie before us. Not only many dangers but many more misfortunes, many mistakes and disappointments will surely be our lot; death and sorrow will be our companions on the journey, hardship our garment, constancy and valor our only shield...
...words of Bevin, Britons of all ranks and classes found sentiments expressed which, perhaps to their own surprise, they shared. A year of war hardship, in which rich and poor were sardined in the same shelters, dodged the same bombs, had acted as a strong leveling influence. Through his dive bombers and Messerschmitts Adolf Hitler had unintentionally brought about the same Gleichschaltung in Britain that years of repression and persecution had achieved in Germany. The British masses, plus a very large and rapidly increasing proportion of the middle and upper classes, were convinced that they did not want the Britain...
Last week it looked as if no candidate on record had presented so many unpalatable arguments to so many possible supporters as had Wendell Willkie. He had spurned isolationist support and the backing of Father Coughlin; he had warned of the need for toil and sweat, sacrifice and hardship; he went up & down the land telling a people accustomed to hearing of its strength, of its present and future weaknesses. Last week's Gallup poll suggested that this course was not getting him many votes. But it was making him an increasingly able popularizer of one of the world...
...Draft. Although 60.2% of the executives felt that conscription would work some hardship on their business (6% said it would have a seriously adverse effect), they were solidly (84.1%) in favor...
...Parc. at Vichy, the executive seat Room 73 on the third floor. Nobody has ever had much luck running a country from a hotel room, as Pierre Laval well knows. Furthermore, "Free France" (as Vichy calls the unoccupied two-fifths of the nation) is a land of want and hardship which cannot exist disconnected from the rest of France. Every week some common useful thing disappears from the lives of its people...