Word: toiling
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...writer and teacher whose life had been rakish though not quite dissolute, he converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...
...blockbuster novel, short-story writers have had a hard time supporting their habit. While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...
...bright aspect of that toil behind the drugstore counter was that, promptly at 9:15 every Sunday night. George Frazier '33 would stop in for a double-rich chocolate frappe. At first George, who later became a popular Boston columnist and Esquire magazine's jazz critic, would rave about the Guy Lombardo band he heard every Sunday night sponsored by Robert Burns panatella cigars. I soon changed Frazier's musical tastes permanently--and, I'm sure, for the better, by lending him some records by Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols and Bessie Smith...
...painfully understandable, for the British alone had been fighting courageously against Hitler ever since the war began. While France collapsed and the Soviets stood as temporary allies of Germany, Churchill told his people that he had "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat," and for five long years they had proudly pledged themselves to that offer...
...fall clean-up is not all fun and games. "It's toil," pointed out Celia M. Francis '87. "I'm just here because it pays 15 cents more per hour than my summer...