Word: travailing
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...laudable qualities and some disquieting ones in the still unfolding character of the nation's often baffling President. As he faced his first major crisis, Carter proved more compassionate and less cold-blooded than many people had expected. He manfully, if incorrectly, blamed only himself for the Washington travail of his former colleague in Georgia state government, and he showed no bitterness toward either Lance's sometimes irresponsible critics or an unrelenting, though generally accurate press...
...during and immediately after the long Labor Day weekend. A trio of Senators played key roles: Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia; Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee; and Charles Percy of Illinois, the committee's top Republican. They argued that prolonging Lance's travail not only would be futile, but could seriously impair the President's ability to promote such Administration priorities as the Panama Canal treaty and the energy program. Before the week was out, all three had called for Lance's resignation. The climactic events unfolded this...
...spreading fear drastically altered New York's uninhibited courting habits and added a new travail to an already painful summer in Job City. The metropolis, which is still only a few legalistic steps ahead of fiscal insolvency, has suffered through a nightmarish blackout and looting, a bloody bus hijacking and last week two bombings by Puerto Rican independence terrorists. One man was killed and seven people injured, while other bomb scares over two days forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 workers from their buildings...
...renowned humor: he sees certain friends more regularly these days and so finds himself repeating jokes. He is also more convinced than ever that the most remarkable spectacle of recent years is this old lady called the United States of America, who has gone through a season of travail, who faces many immense problems ahead, but who in the summer of 1977 sits mellow and fortified from sea to sinning sea. Now get Tyler out of the pool, please...
Charles de Gaulle liked to believe that all Frenchmen at heart were Gaullists, ready to respond instantly to his mystic brand of nationalism in times of travail-provided, of course, that the call to glory came from an inspired and iron-willed leader. Last week a generally disgruntled French populace awoke to the clarion of a familiar bugle, and lo, it was playing their song...