Word: toils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinguished visitors had returned home to such faraway places as Ghana and Senegal. Last week Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, 53, Chile's newly-installed president by virtue of a resounding victory over Communist-backed Salvador Allende, called his first Cabinet meeting and got down to the toil of pulling his country back from the cliff edge of financial ruin...
...Tareyton smokers" and "like a cigarette should." By contrast, some of history's most enduring slogans were plucked from literature. Winston Churchill's call to "blood, sweat and tears"-boiled down from his first statement as Prime Minister in 1940, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"-was adapted from a passage in a 1931 book by Churchill; but strikingly similar words were used in previous centuries by the British poets John Donne, Byron and Lord Alfred Douglas...
Thus, for years, conservatives have been laboring doggedly in areas like Wisconsin. As more than a partial result of their efforts, Barry Goldwater is the Republican presidential nominee. The moderates should have learned one thing in San Francisco: the conservatives deeply believe in the rightcousness of their cause; their toil is not solely an attempt to gain power, and, once they have attained power at any level, they will not easily modify the views that prompted them to action in the first place...
...Contrary to legend, however, the "junior court" does not come close to running the Supreme Court. Clerks have been known to help draft an opinion, and they serve the function of conveying what their old professors think (often not much) of their new bosses' thinking. But mostly they toil away at screening certiorari petitions (appeals for review), writing memos that sum up the issues, and doing the research that goes into well-honed opinions...
...what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep...