Word: toile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though gravediggers' toil is long...
...asked to approve was technically an extension of one passed Aug. 24, giving the King wide powers to govern by decree in wartime-on advice of his Privy Council (Cabinet members and others appointed by the King). Practically, it gave the Cabinet control of every British asset in toil and treasure to fight the war. Socially and politically it withdrew from the British people the rights of person and property they had wrested from King John at Runnymede 725 years ago, and from the British working class the hard-won reforms of the past two centuries...
...upper classes, who had long foreseen that the war would make the most drastic demands on Property, came no complaint. From the stoic middle classes, whose small holdings were likewise doomed, came none either. Labor's spokesmen were downright enthusiastic. For labor had nothing to give but its toil, for which it would be paid. Intellectual labor pointed out that socialization of industry was one of its historic aims, and the Act came close to bringing this about...
...Cabinet he appeared before the House and, mincing no words, told it what was in store for Britain: "If you ask what is our policy, it is to wage war by sea, land and air with all our might," said Winston Churchill. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." The House gave him a 381-to-0 vote of confidence and Neville Chamberlain smiled a tight-lipped smile...
...States, along with the recent speeches of the President, could not by the wildest stretch of vision deduce that they were expressions of one and the same government. On the one hand is the Neutrality Law, careful, measured, and calm. The reader can see written into it the long toil, and debate, and painstaking devotion of its makers, men full of zeal for one thing--keeping a nation out of war. On the other hand are Mr. Roosevelt's addresses, stirring and emotional, speaking of a civilization, a way of life that is in danger. With each new Nazi aggression...