Word: toiling
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...seaward. And so, apparently, have readers' tastes, with such books as The Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm, he again pits hard men against the pitiless...
...Abington Street, near the town boundary, a $7,000 loan so that they can have a water-piping system installed. Hingham's advisory committee opposed the loan on the grounds that it would "set a bad precedent." But then Mrs. John L. Kroesser told the meeting about the toil and trouble the lack of water pipes caused her and her neighbors: "After our wells went dry last August, we had to carry water from Rockland, about a mile away, and we kept this up until [December]." Fire Chief Albert W. Kimball said that he often lay awake at night...
...Charter. He spoke with the neat, oratorical pace and lilt that carried his audience nostalgically back to mid-October. He reeled off jest after well-phrased jest, spoofing the Republicans ("To the victor belongs the toil") and spoofing his own party. ("We Democrats are in a mood to love everybody. And, of course, we would be delighted if a few million more people would love us.") He also defined a commendable charter for a Democratic minority party...
Professor Paul A. Underwood of the Harvard-Dumbarton Oaks research library near Washington, D.C., the head of a mission uncovering Byzantine mosaics, has announced that work is nearing completion after almost 20 years of toil...
...that the Old Warrior believed that the "mortal danger" of Soviet aggression had in any way diminished. Earnestly, he warned "all the nations who would rather die than submit to Communist rule" that "hard sacrifice and constant toil" are still urgently necessary if the free world is to preserve its "right to live." But Churchill's warning was less dramatic than his optimistic forecast, and in war-weary Europe, his speech was taken to mean what too many Europeans wanted it to mean: that the time has come to relax...