Word: travails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman in travail...
...pangs of travail...
...city through whose streets Jesus walked to His death and triumph 1,923 years ago was vibrant with tension and murderous with hate. It is tense and murderous today. Suleiman's 16th century wall and Palestine's 20th century travail divide Jerusalem between Old City and New, and sentries-Jordan's Arabs, Israel's Jews-stand an uneasy guard. "If one of those soldiers throws a tin can at another across the wall," says a Western diplomat at the bar of the National Hotel, "it could touch off a holocaust." A travel agent sips his drink...
...this year been hearing its strongest parliamentary attacks on monopolies, and may wind up with the first antimonopoly bill in its history. Last summer, news of the U.A.W.-Ford guaranteed annual wage agreement rocked the national convention of France's 2,000,000-member Confederation Generate du Travail, and seriously weakened Communist control. In today's booming Federal Republic of Germany, an industrialist who has not been to the U.S. to study production methods is not seriously listened to. In Mexico, Sears, Roebuck & Co., G.M. and Ford have raised wages, granted pensions and health plans, and given Mexico...
Inspired by such groups as the Peasant Brothers and the Little Sisters and Little Brothers of Abbe Foucauld, Abbe Roussel got church permission in 1947 to found his Institut Seculaire de Travail leuses. Since then, he has lived in the buckle of Paris' red belt-the dingy factory suburb named for St. Denis, when only 2,000 of 25,000 people ever go to church. Here, in a tiny, fourth-floor walk up with a cold-water tap in the back court and one toilet to 16 families, he directs the work of his 25 missionar> women...