Word: travailing
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...Uncle Sam had come into World War II at the outset ... if you even had the gallantry to admit that Britain's postwar travail stems from what she did for the rest of us in 1940 and 1941 . . . Canadian opinion of Uncle Sam would not be what it is today. As Canadians see it, Uncle's new status as dictator of the free world's economy derives directly from the Great Hangback...
...cottage in Wiltshire he posed with an armful of pussywillows. He walked the woods-"Before a budget I always seek out the trees." He listened to chirping birds, and he gathered violets and brought them to his office at 11 Downing Street. There, in his final hours of travail, he sat at a desk "overlooking the forsythia and almond blossoms in the garden of No. 10," reported London's Evening News...
...protect us from its untutored excesses. Happy is he who can find his religion within the ancient wisdom of a church; happy the nation! But our age, if it is to be a religious age, must be also an age of rediscovery. That will take us through much travail before we find our spiritual home...
...Philippines suffer not alone from the after-effects of the war. China, France and Greece are undergoing the same travail...
...working away in his cold office, amid the smoke and grit from the Gare de 1'Est, would have dearly loved to go fishing in the sun at one of his favorite Riviera vacation spots. But Frachon could not get away. As Communist boss of the Confederation General du Travail, he was directing one of the most massive and delicate operations in French labor history. His problem was to maneuver the C.G.T.'s six million members so as to take maximum political advantage of the bitter discontent arising from high living costs. The delicacy arose from an inhibition familiar...