Word: toils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elements which are honest in themselves, human sensuality is unfortunately even cleverer in discovering it and in being readily fascinated by it." And even though the cut be modest, the cloth "may be guilty of excessive luxury, which is an offense to the spirit of those who labor and toil...
...acceptance of such a plan-a compulsion to try to preserve life itself which is a force that will not be denied. Certainly the peoples of our host country who did not flinch or hesitate when one of their greatest leaders, Winston Churchill, offered them only blood, toil, tears and sweat, will respond to this new challenge...
...facilities" to report "actual situations" in the local bureaucracy, and in Peking emboldened students called for the withdrawal of the Communist control group in Peking University. (This development so unnerved the university's dean that he threatened to resign.) Meantime, all over China party dignitaries dutifully turned to toil. At one collective farm 33 generals and 127 field-grade officers suddenly appeared and pitched in to help flabbergasted peasants with the weeding and manure-hauling. In the capital itself Minister of Marine Products Hsu Teh-heng, 63, spent a day as a fish porter-a sight which, according...
...brave death," he told his flock last November in his first public sermon after being released by the Communists. "Poles know how to die magnificently. But, my dear ones, Poles must learn to work magnificently. When one dies one may get glory quickly; but to live in toil, suffering pain and sacrifice for years is greater heroism, and this greater heroism is needed today...
Painting an unmelting, bleak, cynical portrait of the road to prostitution, the plot involves a girl whose mother was early gotten with child and was left by her lover to a life of menial toil. The mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She sets her buxom daughter up as an artist's model with hopes that she will make "connections." The daughter is picked up by a chauffeur on his day off and has a very earnest affair with him, finally becoming engaged. While he is out of town, a fellow-model persuades...