Word: travails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they learned only the barest details of the North Atlantic pact, tabloid readers learned a lot about life's triumphs, travail and heartbreak that readers of the Times and Herald Tribune (which chose to run Tenor Tagliavini's troubles on its music page) often missed in their news...
...travail of 400 million in the Indian subcontinent have come two symbols-a man of love and a man of hate. Last winter the man of nonviolence, Gandhi, died violently at the hands of an assassin. Last week the man of hate, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, at 71, died a natural death in Karachi, capital of the state he had founded. His devoted and equally fanatic sister, Fatima, was at his side; so was his daughter, Mrs. Dinah Wadia, whom he had disowned because she married a Parsee (as he had done before...
...Travail of a Prince. In their trouble they turned where they would have turned in the Middle Ages: to the local overlords, the Massimo family. Its present representative is curly-headed, witty young Prince Vittorio Massimo. When Hannibal wiped out the Roman armies in Apulia at the Battle of Cannae, the Romans entrusted their fortunes to one Fabius Maximus, later known as Cunctator-the Delayer, because he made Hannibal chase him around Italy for eight years. He was Vittorio's ancestor. Now that the Arsolians brought him their troubles, Vittorio realized that something just as bad as Hannibal...
...letters Robinson wrote to Smith have now been made public for the first time. Though not in themselves "great letters," they are a fascinating, often extremely moving record of the youthful travail of an American poet...
...time, a defeat at the polls would be fatal. Malraux proposed a compromise: an R.P.F. slate in two cities only, Paris and Algiers. Then the eleven lieutenants looked at the tall, slow-moving, impassive man who had galvanized and symbolized France's will to live through her wartime travail. He thanked them, flicked ashes from his blue suit, ended the meeting...