Word: labouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mindedly describes it as one of "real interest for the general reader . . ." By and large it is not. But, though it will never replace the Hymarx for Government 1, this book does fill a long-felt need for a largely impartial analysis of the theoretical roots of the British Labour Party...
Piqued Editor Martin pecked back at the Columnist Brothers Alsop. "For light relief," he scoffed in the New Statesman, "you ought to read [them]. Joseph Alsop is a familiar figure in this country. He eats and talks in labour circles, describing himself as a socialist. I often wonder whether he makes the same proud claim in Washington. His brother Stewart [says that] ... no one in America really wants war . . . That some people want war, however, is very clear indeed from the Alsop brothers' own column, which went so far the other day as to say that the World...
...Lazybeds. "What need they to work," wrote a traveler to Ireland in 1670, "who can content themselves with potatoes, whereof the labour of one man can feed forty...
...Fabre (TIME, Aug. 22) and several Americans. But his book is larded with personal observations and reminiscences, and he pays his respects to lay enthusiasts like himself: "Our knowledge of spiders-in this country [England] at any rate-is due entirely to spare-time naturalists, men who labour, or laboured, for love; clergymen, schoolmasters, doctors, businessmen and others...