Word: toils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom had Belgrade seen more bustle and toil. Wrecking crews felled whole rows of shabby old tenements as if scything corn. Gangs labored round the clock to transform gaping foundations into spruce little parks. Everywhere, the police rounded up known drunks, idlers and beggars and sent them off to the countryside for the duration of the Conference of Unaligned Nations...
...University of Chicago's exuberantly extracurricular Alice Schaeffer, 21, is an English major from Evanston, who moved the dean of students to burble that she is "the veritable Renaissance woman of unending versatility." A top scholar, Alice won such praise by tireless toil for the university theater, the annual Blackfriars shows, the Darwin show, the Billy Barnes Revue, the interdormitory council and the Festival of the Arts. This summer she has a job in a student revue at Chicago's Sherry Hotel; next fall she heads for Stanford and a master's degree. Her dream...
...seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil...
...infested city of Hodeida by 300 Russian technicians, plus uncounted Yemeni laborers. Not to be outdone, the Chinese Communists are building a modern highway from Hodeida to the ancient walled city of Sana (altitude: 7,260 ft.), Yemen's oldest capital. Every day, some 2.000 Red Chinese toil shoulder to shoulder with 3,000 of their Yemeni brothers, all the while singing the great ballads of the Chinese proletariat, e.g., "We Will Not Allow United States Imperialists to Ride Roughshod over the People"-to the considerable amazement of the fierce little Moslems...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Opening as the new Prime Minister utters his first statement to Commons-"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"-the third episode portrays the retreat through Western Europe and the Dunkirk evacuation...