Word: toiled
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...welcome sign of nature. She is radiant in her servitude; her toil gives her joy because it allows her to see in closeup how the world grows. She is enthralled to slice open a papaya, or watch an ant carry its backpack of crumbs. And with the same fascination, but etched in loss for her own child, the mother watches Mui. At night, as a breeze whispers through the sheer canopy on Mui's bed, the girl says the word mother in her sleep. The mother of the house, eavesdropping on this intimacy, dries her own tears on the canopy...
...picture of you that nobody is snapping"). The insecure mogul somehow appeals to the sensitive researcher ("I think it's so wonderful that you don't worry about even trying to act strong"). All are trying to raise their moral sights in a business in which they must also toil to perfect the kind of personality they have to apologize for having...
SPACE: Hubble, Hubble, Toil and Trouble...
Like most moral strictures that are actually obeyed (the classic example: Do not worship a golden calf), this one never impinged on my life-style. It's not as if I toil for a New York City tabloid and have to beg some hard-boiled city editor, "Please, I'll do anything -- Madonna, Heidi Fleiss, even Shannen Doherty. Anything but the Trump beat...
Compared to some health clubs, Harva4rd's gym looks like a nineteenth century European zoo--the overcrowding, the iron bars, the stench. Harvard students know this as "the MAC," short for Malkin Athletic Center, the abyss where the masses are condemned to sweat and toil...