Word: toils
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...assumed the role in which he feels most at home: that of the table-thumping, tough-spoken bargainer. This time he was arguing for the employer's side, i.e., the government. When the T.U.C. leaders reiterated their demands, Bevin rumbled that it was up to the workers, through toil and discipline, to support their government...
Holland is still picturesque: large hay-boats sail by on the North Sea Canal. When we went under draw bridges the operators lowered small wooden shoes so we could put in a few cents toil. On the other hand, there are many signs of American influence. The proprietor of a very small hotel in Enkhuizen, where few Americans venture, offered me several copies of "Life" while I waited to use his phone. One Sunday we arrived at the tourist-frequented island of Marken to be serenaded by a large excursion steamer blazing the strains of "Cruising Down the River...
...they have found that just around the corner was another crisis. In the face of each new crisis, Britons worked harder than ever before; industrial production boomed to 40% above the prewar level. But Britain was finding it increasingly hard to get dollars in exchange for its sweat and toil...
...Hidden Flaws. But none of this altered the grey toil of entering item 6, and subtracting line 2 from line 1, or eased the dogged pursuit of deductions. The task of home accountancy seemed to grow more harassing every year. And in mid-March, the man who had preferred not to think how much money the government was getting out of his check every week, had to face up to the spectacle of his tax total and sign his name beneath...
...Arkansas cornfield in 1919, Evangelist John Elward Brown planted an interdenominational college to spread his gospel of "God, honest toil and motherhood." Last week, at 69, President John Brown of John Brown University decided that the Lord needed him back on the evangelist's trail. He turned over his chair to son John Elward Jr., a J.B.U. graduate ('42) and ex-Navy officer. That made "Beddie" Brown, at 26, probably the youngest university head...