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Word: toils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many imaginative American entrepreneurs advertise: "Add a Fifth Freedom, freedom from---," and fill in the blank with such items as catarrh, termites, furnace-stoking, or more generally, toil of any kind? Surely a body devoted to general human welfare, such as the UN, cannot afford in its concern for the great to forget the small...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Forgotten Freedoms | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

...Toil & Trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...seek full partnership with the peoples of Asia, as with all other peoples," he said. "What we want is a partnership for peace . . . We know that the peoples of Asia . . . want their farmers to own their land and to enjoy the fruits of their toil. That's one of our great national principles also. We believe in the family-size farm ... we know that the peoples of Asia want their industrial workers to have their full measure of freedom and rising standards of living. So do we . . ." Communism was a seductive "false revolution," said Harry Truman, which would leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Question Period | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...show itself tags and eventually begins to toil after Merman, it never trips her up. Irving Berlin's score is pleasing and varied, offering now the pretty Old World tinkle of The Ocarina, now a pre-election selection called They Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...really in a hell of a fix ... Talk about getting peace through the U.N. now sounds as unrealistic as the Crittenden Compromise* at the opening of the Civil War. Today we need a Churchill to call us to our battle stations with promises of nothing better than blood, sweat, toil and tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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