Word: travailing
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...sells more than 4,000 items, ranging from "mammy cloths" (cotton prints) to bulldozers. It runs an assembly plant for General Motors in Nigeria, has its own fleet of river boats, and tends more than 418,000 acres of palm-tree plantation. In 1960, despite Africa's political travail. United Africa had its best year, boosted its sales to $616 million, an increase of $53 million over...
This is a man who has come a long way, not just on this night, but on so many years of nights when his way of life kept him aloft. He is a scarred warrior, accustomed to discomfort, danger and travail. He is not to be defeated; for having so many times emerged victorious, no other outcome enters his thinking. His home is in his flight bag, his wardrobe a rumpled uniform, and his office...
...Sylvia has no equal at reducing vital but complex subjects, such as the Federal Reserve System, to manageable size. She is sometimes miles ahead of the competition in spotting trends: she was one of the first to see the business recession of 1958, made a splash by spotting the travail of Miami's resort-hotel business...
Jewish Diaspora will have been the pioneer and pilot community of the new kind. That is a glorious role . . . Let it take heart, and seize its destiny with both hands, now that its long travail is at last on the verge of bearing fruit...
...people (including slaves, but not untaxed Indians) in the U.S. in 1790, when Thomas Jefferson ran off the first census. Seventeen censuses later, the U.S. population figures to tumble over the 180 million mark. Last week around the nation, the census takers -170,000 of them-were going through travail and triumph to bring in the exact figures. Predictably, the nosy head counters were sure to have their hands full, for it has always been thus...