Word: travailed
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...President without noticing it. "I've seen it before and found it very moving, but to be perfectly frank, I didn't look at it tonight." Bernstein's unconventional ways with the Mass upset some people, but not Mother Rose, who has been through too much travail to make stern judgments. "Jack would have loved it," she said. "It's the great expression of hope that is important. In spite of Jack's discouragement, he always had the idea that things would be all right if there was enough time." As the crush grew greater...
...domination that are being challenged by the revolt of modern forces of production as a whole against bourgeois relations of production. And the fall of contemporary Bastilles will usher in a new and a different world. For as one contemplates a world in tumult and a world in travail, the riposte is inescapable: "And yet-it moves...
...sells a low-price line through its Thom McAn and Meldisco divisions, was helped to a 20% increase in sales over the same period in 1969. Rooney's case is not unusual. Adversity has always smiled on a lucky few, and the present economic downturn that is bringing travail to many companies is pure serendipity for others...
After so many hours, lives, speeches spent, Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks: Deliver Helen, and all damage else, As honor, loss of time, travail, expense... Shall be struck...
Other plays have shown the depth of Negro travail. Lonnie Elder Ill's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men focuses on a pitiably poor father who tries to rear his sons in honesty only to find that the survival value of honesty in his situation is very low. In Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, a savvy young man who idolizes an ex-con man tries to form his own black Mafia and dies in the attempt...