Word: travailing
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...weather and to men. In his sex life he was by turns passionate (he "could scarcely keep his hands off [women]") and inhibited. But the weather's buffetings also stimulated Lincoln, and his inhibited (i.e., civilized) personality was just what was needed by "a social order ... in travail." While Stephen Douglas cracked up, Abe Lincoln grew stronger with age: had he not been assassinated, says Dr. Petersen, he would have lived to be a hundred...
...along. Besides, there was nothing much to do in the way of legislating on a large scale. "Old Muley" Doughton had the tax bill before his House Ways & Means committee, and after a member had taken sides pro-or-con the Ruml Plan, he could drift on without mental travail-unless he was the serious kind of Congressman who faithfully attended all his committee meetings, answered his mail, ran errands for his constituents...
...attack on Britain was a none-too-brilliant job of improvisation. Since then German aircraft production has kept abreast of the Army's needs, but it is doubtful if Germany has been able to develop the heavy-bomber production which Britain and the U.S. achieved only after prolonged travail. Nonetheless the British are preparing for the worst. (When Prime Minister Churchill boasted that British aircraft production exceeded German output, a British official plaintively observed: "How the hell does he know?") They have dug deep, well-equipped raid shelters, which London sorely lacked in 1940-41. Techniques of fire fighting...
...Norway, 36 years ago, the crown, too large even for his Viking dome, slipped down over his ears. Superstitious observers whispered that this was an evil omen for his reign. But last week in London the exiled King, on his 70th birthday, knew that in his people's travail Norway's crown fitted him more snugly than ever. Standing with Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, the shy, baldish King, uniformed as an admiral, reviewed an expatriate kingdom: hundreds of civilians-men, women & children who had fled from Norway; Norwegian soldiers and sailors; women in Auxiliary Service...
...world trembled at the travail of Russia, at the ghastly consequences that would burst upon it if her resistance collapsed...