Word: toiling
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...hammered home the value of education. "When I was still a kid," recalls Governor Ariyoshi, "I told my father I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'Go to it. You can have the shirt off my back.' " Working hard, living frugally, the A.J.A.s speedily swapped plantation toil for small farms, mom-and-pop shops and city jobs. By the early '30s, almost half had Hawaiian bank accounts and almost 200 were dentists and doctors...
...first ten minutes of The Island are an intense, powerful theatrical experience, a pantomime of toil and fatigue, blood and pain. The rest of the play is inevitably an anti-climax that never fully lives up to the expectations and intense atmosphere set up by the play's beginning. When Kani exhibits the quick comic energy that worked so well in Sizwe Banzi, although the audience is laughing and the comic relief much needed, it is as if the high drama of the opening is reduced to situation comedy. John's comic exasperation in teaching the plot of Antigone...
...Crimson writers had written reams of copy about Vietnam and Indochina, all of it angry and heartfelt and sympathetic to the people there. But we didn't say anything, and we haven't said anything about Indochina since. What could we say? After five years of editorial sweat and toil, how could we turn our backs on the Cambodians? And how could we praise them for policies that bordered, or seemed to border, on mass murder...
...people have left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples." 30. Nixon. 31. Ford,while meeting with economic advisors at Vail, Colo. 32. Ford, Gas taxes. 33. Inflation. 34. Inflation, recession,and the energy crisis. 35. "Count every penny." 36. Economic summit conference. 37. God. 38. Toil and sweat. 39. Exchange them with neighbors and send them to him. 40. WIN flags. 41. "Share with others." 42. "The spirit of the American people." 43. Good. 44. Whip Inflation Now. 45. Back Again to Hoover. 46. Hoover. 47. Each other." 48. Eliminate them. More pet food for people...
...know why we are so determined," says Kyung-Wha. "But our family dislikes anything in between." The habit of toil was instilled early. At home, the children would gather hi one large room in a communal practice for the contests they were encouraged to enter. Myung-Whun, the next to youngest, played his first concerto at seven with the Seoul Philharmonic. Still, he considers himself a "late starter...