Word: toile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London soccer game Princess Elizabeth smiled but, next to her, General Sir Bernard Montgomery glowered. Royalty, as usual, was holding its chin up, but the mood of Britons was not spririglike. Churchill had said what they thought: "The task is heavy, the toil is long, the trial will be severe." Bombs on London were a thumping reminder of how severe the trial had already become...
...have accepted no barriers. We are absolutely free to interest ourselves in the affairs of Europe. ..." Finally he offered Britain the diplomatic equivalent of Winston Churchill's wartime blood, toil, sweat and tears. Said Eden: "I do not in my experience remember when foreign policy was so diffi cult to conduct as it is now. ... I can only promise the House this: plenty of difficulties, plenty of disappointment and much deception in the times that lie ahead...
...workers in the busy throng, Who toil unnoticed all day long, When everything it seems, goes wrong, Tell God About...
...farmers' lush income was not all due to price inflation. Much of it they had earned the hard way, by longer hours of sweat, toil-and some cause for tears. After a wet late spring that brought disastrous floods and killing frosts, they plowed and seeded from sunup to midnight. Some worked by moonlight; others -rigged up floodlights, or mounted battery-operated searchlights on their tractors...
Democracy. Rights gained by toil and time permit the House of Commons, irrespective of the King's wishes, to do what it pleases. The Outlawries Bill symbolizes this pillar of freedom. A measure "for the more effectual preventing Clandestine Outlawries in personal actions," the Outlawries Bill was offered first in 1743. Never enacted, it was never forgotten. The members of the House never hear the King's address without reviving and reading it to show their independence...