Word: toils
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...breakfast together, citizen. She is hitching the light up for your asinine patio party, your old starlight teevee movies, your electric toothbrush, vibrator, Magic Fingers." Maureen, a black woman who supports her heroin-addicted brother, operates a shipyard crane. She, Polly and three or four other sisters in honest toil are being vaguely menaced by a Eurasian man, who writes them inscrutable mash notes. Also spying on them, flickeringly, is a peculiar fellow with a white bulldog. While presenting these enigmatic events, Hannah's ordinarily vivid prose seems flattened toward objectivity. Scenery is telescoped: "Aero-scan of birds, all kinds...
...When the London marathon kicks off on April 17, thousands of spectators will watch some 40,000 entrants toil along the grueling course. At the same time, in gyms around Britain, other determined athletes will be seated on a Concept2 indoor rowing machine to row the marathon distance of 26 miles while they watch the runners pound the pavement on TV. The machine allows an oarsman to tackle the endurance challenge of a marathon, rowing a distance that's not practical on the water. Used for training by many of the medal-winning crews at the 2000 Sydney Olympics...
PROVIDING CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION With enough water points and latrines for the safety of the entire village, women and children would save countless hours of toil each day fetching water. The water could be provided through a combination of protected springs, rainwater harvesting and other basic technologies...
...looming humiliation of Annenberg; the Darwinian process of forming blocking groups; the problem sets and papers; the slow and purposeful slides up the totem pole. What do you get after three years of toil? One night at Iruña a group of fifteen—err, make that 11—seniors joined together as they do every year at FM’s behest, and tried to answer that question...
...Kintore, 500 km west of Alice Springs, a lifetime of dreamings, but also something new: Papunya Tula Artists, the movement begun by Geoffrey Bardon in 1971, which is today a multi-million-dollar industry and the community's main provider. Now a whiteboard in the Kintore shed lists their toil (Johnny - 4 by 2; Eileen - 107 by 28; Joseph - 4 by 3 ? ) and linen, gesso and cadmium yellow to be ordered in. But in short supply this morning are the artists: only Josephine Napurrula and Eileen Napaltjarri are at work, cross-legged on the floor, quietly dabbing at their canvases...