Word: toils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman still looks trim and cocky during public appearances, still gets up early enough to work before breakfast. But except on rare occasions, his famed two-mile morning hikes are now a thing of the past-abandoned under the stress of White House toil, and at the urging of White House physician General Wallace Graham to get the President to sleep a little later in the morning. Last week sharp-eyed reporters noted another alteration in the President's personal routine-after years of folding his breast-pocket handkerchief so that four geometrically perfect points protruded, he appeared...
After a summer of sporadic weekly toil, the Crime departs from Cambridge with this issue...
Eurich and Wilson set up, revised, and tried out innumerable questions with the help of 30-odd researchers, several professors of arts and social sciences, and hundreds of submissive students. The team emerged from all this toil, sweat and tedium in May 1934 with a quiz they liked. The scholarly American Council on Education also liked...
...from Hell's Kitchen had never found much time for social life; he and his wife seldom went out, seldom entertained. His work was still his life, and he drove other men to work simply by example-by his own almost fearful enthusiasm, energy and capacity for toil...
...Crookshank, Tory M.P. for Gainsborough, rose last week in the House of Commons and described the condition of Britain. Said he: "There is muddle in defense, muddle in groundnuts, jmddle in newsprint, muddle in coal, muddle in housing, and now the greatest muddle of all-meat. 'Muddle, muddle toil and muddle' is [the government's] motto. The trouble is that these witches somewhere on the Whitehall heath cannot go on to say, 'Fire burn and cauldron bubble,' because there is a fuel muddle as well...