Word: toiling
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...Town has shown, the road to pop glory is a trying one, wrought with heartbreak, sweat, and toil...
...really want to go to law school this fall? Do I really want to waste my time with three more years of “reading” and “writing” just to earn the “opportunity” to toil away for another 40 years at some “firm”? Are rhetorical questions and excessive quotation marks really going to be effective in conveying my indecision and pre-“real world” life angst...
...become untenable. The opposition Labour Party would serve in a government of national unity only if it were led by Churchill, and on the evening of May 10, as German troops massed against France, he accepted office from King George VI. Three days later, Churchill promised Britain only "blood, toil, tears and sweat." What he gave his country, above all, was leadership. --By Michael Elliott
...runneth over. In 2002, says the entrepreneur from western China's Sichuan province, his private company raked in $2.5 million in sales by manufacturing paper containers for food and beverages. He has four production lines making paper cups in hangar-like buildings, and 20 young women from the countryside toil in the yard beside them, pasting labels featuring words such as "White Family Potato Noodles" onto single-serving bowls. Business has never been better. Yet Mao, like so many other owners of private companies in China, can't seem to catch a break in his efforts to take his firm...
...able to do in her past and what she would miss in the future. I’ve thought about my father—a man who has dedicated his life to his children’s well-being, regardless of the long hours of thankless toil it required. I still think about the pain he goes through having lost the person he had shared the last 35 years of his life with. I know neither my mother or father thought when they came to the United States from India that life would be easy. Still, I doubt they imagined...