Word: toils
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...Peace by Toil. These are the hard facts which all men who like the safe and solid sound of the phrase "international police force" will have to face when the making of the peace is at hand. The seemingly easy way of providing good citizens of the world with security from outside violence is not within reach for the present...
Along the north coast, where the road chews through solid rock, the Germans set off demolition charges. The Yanks had to toil over and around obliterated roads; artillery had to be ferried up by sea. Then from ferrying guns the Seventh Army proceeded to ferrying troops. In a bold pre-dawn landing behind the German lines the Americans captured San Agata and Sari Fratello, surprised and destroyed a column of enemy reinforcements...
...takes approximately two years to construct a present-day skyscraper, but it took over 600 years of patient toil and sacrifice to construct the Cathedral in Cologne...
...motive was plain: able-bodied Frenchmen in the Reich (1,250,000 war prisoners plus 1,150,000 Nazi-drafted laborers) will not only toil for the New Order but they will be less likely to join the Allied army of liberation when the day of deliverance comes...
...year ago today," he said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...