Word: travailing
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...group of students leaving on a visit to Spain, Marshal Pétain gave what may become the new French flag - a banner bearing the fasces and Vichy's slogan, FAMILLE, TRAVAIL, PATRIE (FAMILY, WORK, COUNTRY...
...this same pregnant strife the United States doubtless will be led, by undeniable interests and aroused national sympathies, to play a part, to cast aside the policy of isolation which befitted her infancy, and to recognize that . . . now to take her share of the travail of Europe is but to assume an inevitable task ... in the work of upholding the common interests of civilization...
...France and Germany these days they are trying to receive the family with laws and slogans. "Travail, Famille, Patrie!" cries Marshal Petain. "Kinder, Kirche, Kuchen!" goes for the German hausfrau. Family sense has always been important in these countries, and they usually fall back upon it in a time of crisis, when it gives them strength...
...Many were the hybrids which defied precise definition. Example: the Trade Unions' Committee for Peace, which sent a phalanx of determined young women to Capitol Hill. Whatever else these pacific Amazons accomplished, they pungently reported on their interviews with politicos in travail: On Speaker Bankhead ("I said, 'Well, what about the conscription bill?' He said, 'I don't know anything about it. I haven't even read it'"); Henry Wallace ("He was very uneasy and begged us to excuse him"); G. O. P.'s Vice-Presidential Nominee Charles L. McNary ("He said...
...alternates, the thousands on thousands of heelers, promoters, wives, newshawks, tag-along citizens worried steadily, through the five days and four nights of the Convention. What they worried about, or what they told themselves they worried about, was the Man who would be born from this political travail...