Word: toiling
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin...
...hour or so off the record would mean little. Ships like the Lusitania and the old Mauretania had guaranteed a 4½day crossing in the early 1900s. The Normandie and the two British Queens had cut it to four days in the 1930s. If she was worth the toil, treasure and time it had taken to build her, the United States had to come significantly closer to airline time...
...pound. Such a success cannot often be repeated . . . It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up in the tax race. If something is not done for us soon, we may no longer be disposed to try . . . The only work that gives me any real hope now is my weekly toil for the football pools. To this I devote increasing time and trouble, for any money I earn in this way will be free...
...some spots the water forced its way under the levees and burst upward in erupting "sand boils." Emergency crews hurriedly closed them off and smothered them with sandbags. It was exhausting, unrelenting, muddy toil, organized with a precision and teamwork learned from years of hard experience...
...hated the dreary toil of filling out his complicated, sometimes incomprehensible income-tax form, and was inclined to have wild, triumphant daydreams about finding on the street a big bundle of unmarked small bills which he could bury without the knowledge of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. As he entered item 6, added items 2 and 3, and fumbled distractedly with old dentist's and gasoline bills, he sometimes stopped to stare for long intervals at the ceiling-as if he expected to see a little loudspeaker push through the plaster and hear President Truman's voice saying...