Word: travailing
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...Jardine, Matheson & Co. and other big British traders in Red China, the road to disillusion has been a way of travail. After the Reds won the China mainland, such firms as Jardine's, Butterfield & Swire, and Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. had the rosily misguided notion that they could do profitable business with Mao Tse-tung. It was in part because of their illusions and their influence that Britain's Labor government of the time recognized the Mao regime...
Washington's travail promptly began again the next summer. His army, beaten on Long Island, escaped across the East River to Manhattan, thanks to a fog, regiments of Salem and Marblehead boatmen, Providence, and Washington's daring. It fought and retreated to White Plains, fought and retreated across the Hudson-and across New Jersey-and across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. As winter deepened, only 2,400 ragged, ill-fed Continental regulars were left. On Dec. 20, 1776, Washington wrote to Congress: "Ten more days will put an end to the existence of our Army...
...strike! it urged the faithful, protest the jailing of Jacques Duclos! And incidentally, wheedled L'Humanité protest the jailing of the paper's own Editor Andre Stil! The big day was Wednesday, designated for a one-day strike of the Red-led C.G.T. (Confederation Generate du Travail), which used to have 6,000,000 members but now has only a third as many. Expecting an exemplary show of violence, L'Huma published medical advice on what to do for riot injuries, e.g., bleeding from the nose and ears, black eyes, head cuts...
Citation: "Experienced and able leader in the economic and political life of his native country, Norway. Courageous public servant during its time of travail. Now, as Secretary General of the United Nations Organization, a distinguished leader in the world's best hope for peace...
...then, without warning, it is upon them--hour after hour, wave after wave, until the blood pounds in their ears and they totter on limbs long unaccustomed to such arduous travail...