Word: travailing
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...vicious criminal. Instead, he has looked at him steadily with profound sympathy but also with implicit disapproval. The Brigand, as a social document, may help explain why many Italians have snapped at the Communist bait. As a novel, it is an honest and affecting picture of human beings in travail...
Enter the Communists. As Juin's proposed reforms failed to reduce Moroccan tension, a situation developed that was wide-open to the Communists. Although forbidden to join unions, 55,000 Moroccan workers signed up with the Confédération Générale du Travail, dominated by French Communists. The Communists had been against the Istiqlal in 1945, but by 1949 they were jumping on the nationalist bandwagon. More & more Arabs started taking part in Communist demonstrations...
...with homework problems. Occasionally, father & daughter struggled until 2 a.m. over the stuff, sometimes didn't get through all Marjorie's assignments even then. As a teacher himself (at the John Adams High School in Queens, N.Y.), father James V. McGill began to wonder: Was all this travail really necessary...
Neither wind nor rain nor flagpole-sitters stopped most of the nation's 140,000 census enumerators last week, but the biggest nosecount in U.S. history was not without its moments of travail...
...midinettes, many of whom were members of the Communist-run General Confederation of Labor, were also supported by the Roman Catholic French Confederation of Christian Workers. They were striking for a raise of 15 francs (4½?) an hour. At an indignation meeting in the Bourse du Travail, a dark-haired Lanvin girl excitedly waved her pay envelope, showing 6,138 francs (about $18) for two weeks' work, and yelled: "I've got to support my mother with that!" Other girls showed mimeographed letters sent by their bosses warning them to return-or else. In front...