| 单词 | backbreaking |
| 例句 | Work on sugar plantations was backbreaking, and treatment inhumane. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I can get maybe one- tenth of a cubic meter in through the airlock at a time, and it'll be backbreaking work to collect it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If she failed in any of these backbreaking jobs, she was beaten. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In particular he spoke of the backbreaking work he had to do on various white farms, and on chain gangs digging trenches and roads in the white people’s world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was still penniless and desperate, and he knew that to make something of his idea was going to require years of backbreaking labor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Moreover, it was not obvious that even the most backbreaking effort would give within several years the structure of the RNA component. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was hard, backbreaking work to stand bent over all day. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Most Scholars who aren’t enslaved work menial jobs—as farmhands or cleaners or stevedores—backbreaking labor for which they’re paid next to nothing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It looked easy, but I suspected that a day of it could be backbreaking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton turned away and ordered the men to resume their backbreaking, futile work. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It was backbreaking work: digging out a level patch of earth, hauling rocks in wheelbarrows, hammering boards in place. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But whom could they get to do the backbreaking sugar work? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But after three days of backbreaking work, she was finally adjusting to life at sea, and today she was going to see the book again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Hot from the time I’d spent in the sun, I gulped it down, no longer thinking about the black men and their backbreaking work out in Grampa’s fields. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Historically the inmates were required to do backbreaking labor, including picking cotton, for about four cents an hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Eliminating the backbreaking need to hand-pump every drop of water had another beneficial effect as well. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “You take that eight hundred dollars and commute your claim. No more fences. No more backbreaking work.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Then, on the twenty-third, the men harnessed themselves to the boats again and resumed the backbreaking haul across the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z After acknowledging Simplicio’s death and naming the waterfall after him, the men once again began the backbreaking job of building another portage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But Mom would do that backbreaking job and then go straight to work at the factory the next morning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The work was hard, yes, but now that she was grown, she could do the most backbreaking jobs without effort. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All those weeks of backbreaking work had been for nothing. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Building a new canoe was backbreaking, tedious work that cost the expedition precious time. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z One way he showed his appreciation to the camaradas for their backbreaking work was to share a chocolate bar from his provisions. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I've got a lot of backbreaking physical labor to do tomorrow. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The work was backbreaking: digging out boulders, chopping down trees, dynamiting tunnels, and hammering in railroad ties. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After two hours of backbreaking labor, hauling the boats through wet, heavy snow, detouring around piles of broken floe, they were only one mile from Endurance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Men were worn down by the backbreaking grind of their work in the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I had never seen such enterprise before, such great machines, such methodical organization, and such backbreaking work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an arduous, backbreaking task: hours of work to gather mere handfuls of rice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z In Portland, Ore., I once helped a photographer lift heavy furniture onto a dolly and maneuver it into the freight elevator — a backbreaking task I could have done without. What road movies tell us about travel — and ourselves 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z He knows the backbreaking work of grubbing up onions or cutting grapes. ‘Cesar Chavez’: a noble portrait of the civil-rights leader 2014-03-26T18:56:20Z For me, every step was an effort under the backbreaking load of my pack. D-Day Dispatch: The first reporter on the beach 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z A silhouetted brown body raising a hammer high above a single immense rail spike says a lot of what there is to say about backbreaking labor. Review: ‘One-Way Ticket’ at MoMA Reunites Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Paintings 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z To this day tourist hotels are built so as to take in views of such fields, ignoring the reality that rice farming is backbreaking labor. Art Review: A Storied Paradise, Tempered by Reality 2011-05-30T21:33:34Z Our cultural understanding of what food is has largely shifted from a backbreaking responsibility to an optional form of leisure, fun and entertainment. Madison Cawthorn's dog whistle about microwave meals isn't new 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z But work is just work, even when it’s backbreaking and wicked. Arts & Leisure Preview: Grab a Brew While They Face Death 2011-03-24T16:56:52Z But Belafonte was making a statement by opening an album with a work song about backbreaking drudgery. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z A New York story par excellence, Ben Ryder Howe’s “My Korean Deli” is a hilarious account of clashing cultures and backbreaking, soul-squeezing vocational juggling. | 'My Korean Deli' 2011-03-15T19:34:55Z While the first half of his life had been dominated by backbreaking work, the second half was more contemplative. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z Disinfectant, the backbreaking work of dedicated employees, public relations strategies and the advice of medical professionals are likely to be vital. On Subways as Riders Return: Odes to Their Resilience 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z His casual restaurants will remain open, but he said fine dining was no longer something he wanted to do himself, or to inflict on his staff, calling the work “backbreaking.” Noma, Rated the World’s Best Restaurant, Is Closing Its Doors 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Never mind the declining attendance, collapsing economy, backbreaking debt and intra-familial tensions; to Tino his circus is still the greatest show on earth. | 'Circo': Big Top as Family Business 2011-04-01T00:06:01Z Rand is all for child labor, even in highly dangerous industries that require backbreaking toil. 10 more depraved lessons I learned reading Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z But it could be backbreaking work, trying to figure out the criss-cross at that dinner table. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z It’s supposed to be a short job — two weeks at most — but for all the skill of the digger and the backbreaking labor of his apprentice, the site refuses to yield water. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z At over 500 pages, the book is backbreaking in size. The Vast World of Islam, in 300 Recipes 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Starting a vegetable garden involves a lot of backbreaking soil work, not to mention the trial and expense of building raised beds, fences, gates and the like. Birds, chipmunks, snakes, insects: At some point, the gardener feels like an intruder 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z It sounds very nice and pretty now to say “agrarian,” but the dark side of that was poverty and hunger and backbreaking labor for the vast majority of people. Is It Southern Food, or Soul Food? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The notebook — and Cristiano’s narration — becomes a portal into a peripatetic life marked by fleeting friendships and relentless privations, countless miles and backbreaking labor. The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Hayes seems to have done backbreaking travel to some of the world’s most beautiful places in the name of research for his peripatetic story. ‘I Am Pilgrim,’ by Terry Hayes 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Take Detroit and Lawrence as examples: For generations, they were governed by people who despised the men and women who did the backbreaking work of preindustrial and then industrial America. Building Back Better — One Community at a Time 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z I went for a few trials last June when things opened up, but it was backbreaking work with too much attitude from the residence owners. Anguish, Determination, Hope: Travel Workers Despair a Lost Year 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z “The retailer community does backbreaking work to get comics into the hands of our loving fans,” he said. A Robert Kirkman Surprise: A New Walking Dead Story 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z But the film also shows how these meals are built from the ground up, and with backbreaking work. Review: In ‘Constructing Albert,’ a Chef’s Ambition, Meticulously Plated 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z John Speke and Richard Burton should have been an excellent team, but became sworn enemies as they battled challenges from disease to backbreaking treks. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z But she also does a backbreaking amount of physical work, and it takes its toll. Books of The Times: Back-to-the-Land Life Recalled in Dark and Light 2011-04-06T21:15:45Z In the 19th and 20th centuries, factory machines relieved us of repetitive manual labor and backbreaking farm work. A Robot Wrote This Book Review 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, backbreaking toil both in the workplace and in the home was for the most part replaced by far less onerous employment. The Powers That Were 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Describing with blunt simplicity the intensity of the backbreaking toil and squalid existence of Andy and his ilk, McNeillie creates a bleak tableau of deprivation and depravity. Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life by John McNeillie - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z This was a backbreaking chore that left me a wreck the next day. Dahlia, give me one more chance Americans are not exactly lined up to fill the backbreaking, low-paying jobs. Review: ‘American Crime’ Fixes on Migrant Dreamers in the Fields 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Jackie: If you’re asking if these amazingly fine, loud, crazy, absolutely backbreaking, exhausting, 16-hour work days feel like a light at the end of a tunnel, then no, I don’t see that yet. 'The League' Creators Jeff and Jackie Schaffer on Their Show's Final Season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Recognizing our toughest problems and getting them in check is backbreaking work. The Drink That Stands Between Recovery and Relapse 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z We don’t witness the daily, backbreaking work in the field, and a whipping happens offstage, but we do see the pervasive, watchful overseers, with their guns and their hound dog. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “Down the River,” her commanding work, alludes to the practice of separating slaves — and prisoners to this day — from their families and sentencing them to backbreaking labor on the South’s cotton plantations. Artists Grapple With America’s Prison System 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z By killing off local inhabitants and enslaving Africans to do the backbreaking labor of tending the sugar plant, European settlers managed to build a huge production complex. How Sweet It Is. And How Malignant. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z His interception in the third quarter on third-and-20 functioned more like a long punt than his four backbreaking giveaways that contributed to Buffalo’s Week 1 loss at the Jets. Josh Allen throws for a TD, runs for another as the Bills rout the Commanders 37-3 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z In his hands, it became an aesthetic as much as a place — the anti-city, where the backbreaking labor and the cubicle blues could be left behind for a realm where real people roamed. Americans have long wanted the perfect endless summer. Jimmy Buffett offered them one 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z In its totality, he wrote, the text “certainly seems geared to deemphasize the backbreaking agricultural labor which was the lot of the vast majority of slaves during the 200 plus years of slavery.” Column: Ron DeSantis and the whitewashing of slavery's horrors 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Aubrey Moya joined the great resignation about a year and a half ago, when she decided she had had enough of the low wages and backbreaking work of waiting tables. The ‘Great Resignation’ Is Over. Can Workers’ Power Endure? 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The labor to which they were put was backbreaking and never ending. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z "This means backbreaking shifts and fewer investments on the lines and on workplace conditions, including safety." Output slows at Stellantis plant in Italy as workers strike over conditions 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z And just like that, yet one more backbreaking moment for the downtrodden Oakland Athletics so far in 2023. A’s set record for starters not getting wins to begin season 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z The Kings raced to an 8-0 lead and nearly led wire to wire, answering Curry’s attempts at mounting a rally with backbreaking shots to maintain a comfortable lead down the stretch. Kings go on road and rout Warriors, forcing defending champs to Game 7 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Fox scored 24 points and made a backbreaking 3-pointer that led the playoff newcomer Kings to a 114-106 win Monday night for their second straight victory over the Golden State Warriors. Kings beat Warriors 114-106 to take 2-0 series lead 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z SACRAMENTO, Calif. — De’Aaron Fox scored 24 points and made a backbreaking 3-pointer that led the playoff newcomer Sacramento Kings to a second straight victory over the defending champion Golden State Warriors, 114-106 on Monday night. Fox, Kings beat Warriors 114-106 for 2-0 lead; Green ejected 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z It involves about a week of backbreaking work. Spring Cleaning Was Once Backbreaking Work. For Many, It Still Is. 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Instead, they were scattered to sugar plantations, forced to do backbreaking work for at least three years to pay off their debts. How a Korean American found healing by retracing the first Korean immigrants' ocean voyage 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z It was backbreaking work, the weather “hotter than blue blazes,” Jay said. A round barn rises in rural America. There is grief and hope in its rafters 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z For all of these favorable developments, Tatum’s backbreaking jumper was a reminder that the Celtics loom as boogeymen. Analysis | Joel Embiid still believes after a career of painful losses 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z “He made huge plays that stemmed the tide in our favor. … Those type of plays are backbreaking for the offense,” Unseld said. Kristaps Porzingis lights up Hornets for 36 as Wizards snap skid 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z The program was created to give them a shot at a secure retirement after a lifetime of what may have been backbreaking work. Column: The stupid and dishonest idea of raising the Social Security retirement age is back 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The shift in momentum was magnified by some backbreaking penalties. Column: Is Brandon Staley the right coach to lead Justin Herbert and the Chargers? 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z To deal with this backbreaking labor, rice farmers rely heavily on extended family and neighbors. What Rice-Farming Cultures Can Teach Us about Pandemic Preparedness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Either way, it can be backbreaking work at times. Shipping industry’s attempt to hire more women runs into macho culture 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z This year, researchers in China showed perennial rice can meet those benchmarks and save farmers many weeks of backbreaking labor. Science’s 2022 Breakthrough of the Year: A telescope’s golden eye sees the universe anew 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z What the Kraken haven’t seen lately have been soft, backbreaking goals from distance or bad angles that plagued them last season. Aided by better defense, Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer has another strong game 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Physical health also impacts mental health, studies have found, and farm work is backbreaking. At a pizza party for mental health, WA farmers find community amid stress 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Its defense couldn’t hold, and its offense made a backbreaking error. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 10: The Bills-Vikings epic stole the show 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z He has, by and large, made really smart decisions and avoided backbreaking turnovers. Three things we learned from Seahawks’ 31-21 victory at Arizona 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z It’s true that some low-level service-sector jobs are poorly paid, unpleasant, even backbreaking. Opinion | The myth of the manufacturing comeback 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It's been 10 days of backbreaking work by two men in the prime of their life for the equivalent of two dollars a day. From Kabul and beyond, a year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z And eking out that living requires backbreaking work, seven days a week. Haunted by his father’s role in Vietnam, he turned to farming to grow a new legacy 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z While consolidation brings the “the risk of cookie cutter dispositions,” proceeding with individual cases would present a “backbreaking clerical burden” for the court, said Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman. Consolidated youth center abuse lawsuits move forward 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z The work — backbreaking physical labor that pays an average starting wage of $15 an hour, not including hazard pay and overtime — is tougher than ever as fires grow in size and severity. Hellish fires, low pay, trauma: California's Forest Service firefighters face a morale crisis 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “Sometimes we had to water it so that it would be pliable enough for us to remove. I won’t lie, it was backbreaking.” On a block full of lawns, she ditched grass for a DIY drought-tolerant oasis 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The family shared the backbreaking work with two bulls that pulled the plow and a horse that carried the bags bulging with tubers. The Men Lost to 20 Bruckner Boulevard 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s backbreaking work and his tin-roofed home in the crowded slum offers little respite from the heat. South Asia’s intense heat wave a ‘sign of things to come’ 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z It is also a community that was built with backbreaking Black labor and initially kept White by racial covenant. Review | A Black professor in Baltimore, bridging two worlds 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z But the beauty belied the backbreaking work that went into the business, and in time more and more Japanese families left the industry. A widow, a warehouse, an urban farm: Questions of justice flare in Bay Area land dispute 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The backbreaking work offers a few dollars a day, just enough to buy bread and tea for his family to survive. Desperate for Cash, Afghans Toil in Mines That Are Deadlier Than Ever 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Potential farmland was plentiful in Virginia but labor was not, and tobacco required enormous amounts of painstaking, backbreaking work. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z While the wealthy controlled the means of producing goods, the poor performed backbreaking labor under terrible conditions. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The developments came as Russia finds itself increasingly isolated as a result of international condemnation and potentially backbreaking economic sanctions. 40-mile Russian convoy threatens Kyiv; shelling intensifies 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The final scene we did of “Malcolm X,” which was backbreaking. ‘The struggle continues’: Spike Lee on racism, conspiracy theories and storytelling Extracting a fortune from the red soil of the Chesapeake colonies, English colonists grew rich from the backbreaking labor of ever-growing numbers of enslaved Africans, shipping half-ton barrels of leaves to London for processing. Why France really helped America's Founding Fathers fight the Revolutionary War 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z The settlement process included Indian warfare, animal attacks, backbreaking labor, gnawing hunger, and extremes of heat and cold. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In Iraq, the slave labor was concentrated in the south, where there was backbreaking work in salt fields and date plantations. A Black Iraqi’s Sudden Career in TV News: ‘They Wanted to See All Colors’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Hurts was intercepted twice, one a backbreaking pick before halftime when DeVonta Smith broke open on a double move before safety Mike Edwards undercut a low and late throw. What We Learned in the N.F.L.’s Wild-Card Round 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z San Francisco’s secondary may be a bit of a mess, but the 49ers have a shot to win most any game as long as their quarterback does not commit a backbreaking mistake. What We Learned From Week 15 in the N.F.L. 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z “Today, many older people are working themselves to death after backbreaking labor all their lives,” he said during the race’s final debate, promising to create a system of more generous pensions. Gabriel Boric, a Former Student Activist, Is Elected Chile’s Youngest President 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Some preferred it to the nearby local chicken plant or farms, where the work was backbreaking. In a Small Kentucky Town, the Candle Factory Was a Lifeline for Its Workers 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z The pay was meagre, work backbreaking and quite often her abusive and predatory male co-workers tried to touch and grope her, she said. The Nepalese children made to work in bars and clubs 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “It’s another backbreaking move to build bigger bureaucracy.” Biden Orders Federal Vehicles and Buildings to Use Renewable Energy by 2050 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z In this game, the Seahawks’ defense gave up backbreaking scoring drives of 92 and 82 yards that ate up huge chunks of time and put Seattle on its heels right from the start. Barring a miracle, Seahawks’ loss could signal the end of an era 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Others are rethinking careers in backbreaking industries after a perspective-shifting collective public health trauma. Missing Foreign Workers Add to Hiring Challenges 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z In addition to “backbreaking labor,” former defectors may be subject to torture and sexual violence, she said. Chinese city hunts for North Korean defector facing deportation who escaped from prison 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The job description involved changing the football culture, and part of changing the culture isn’t going to the “If we had just stopped their two backbreaking touchdown passes, we would’ve won” well. Perspective | Ron Rivera’s tenure has been an off-field maelstrom. Now the disarray is on the field. 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Industries such as meatpacking and chicken processing are particularly reliant on immigrant labor for backbreaking work often set in rural areas with limited access to attorneys. Federal immigration agents to end practice of worksite raids 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z He’s not committing the backbreaking mistakes of 2020 and, on Sunday, he started taking more shots downfield, finishing with 402 yards and two touchdowns. What We Learned From Week 4 of the N.F.L. Season 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z That’s when, just one week after his costly turnover in a loss to the Baltimore Ravens, Mahomes had another backbreaking error. What We Learned From Week 3 of the N.F.L. Season 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Giants inside linebacker Blake Martinez, who had nine tackles, said the inability to get off the field was backbreaking. Giants vaunted D falters, fails to get off field vs. Broncos 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z “My grandfather worked for the CCC, and I remember him telling me how terrible it was, how backbreaking the work was,” said Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman, the top Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee. Biden, Dems push Civilian Climate Corps in echo of New Deal 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z He said nurses' aides already doing backbreaking work are suddenly forced to care for more patients. Lack of a vaccine mandate becomes competitive advantage in hospital staffing wars 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z “These backbreaking conditions have significant implications for communities of color,” the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and other bill supporters wrote lawmakers this summer. 'My nerves are hurting': California lawmakers take on Amazon's workplace practices 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The Phoenix Suns guard drained a backbreaking three-pointer in the third quarter to put away the Australians’ best rally attempt. With talent and resolve, Kevin Durant leads U.S. men’s basketball team back to gold medal game 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The backbreaking work of harvesting potatoes in the steep hills is still the main way families such as Liez Quispe’s survive. ‘The whole world eats well, and we do not’ If the retail giant wants to keep shortening delivery times, maybe, instead of demanding an ever more frenzied, backbreaking pace from the current workforce, it should bring in reinforcements – additional employees. Shop ‘til they drop 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The trials pay better than dishwashing, require no skills and are far less backbreaking than loading and unloading boxes. Guinea pigs for hire: In need of quick cash, young South Koreans join clinical trials 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Price gravitated to music in childhood, as he sought an escape from backbreaking work carting blocks of ice. Lloyd Price, R&B star who helped lay the foundation of rock-and-roll, dies at 88 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Advocates for robotic farming tout increased automation as a step toward improving efficiency while freeing people from monotonous, backbreaking tasks that few laborers want to do. Farmers have more mouths to feed. Bring in the robots. 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z The farmworkers in the broken system do backbreaking work and are often woefully underpaid. Immigration reform: Readers share their thoughts 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z My grandfather died young, age 53, from a life of backbreaking work, the pain of profound loss and no doubt the emotional scars of the incarceration. My mother knew the trauma of anti-Asian hatred in the land of her father’s dreams 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z “I grew up watching my mother carry 30 or 40 kilos of fish,” she said, a backbreaking 65 to 90 pounds. Spurred by Tragedy to a Life of Female Empowerment 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z In the direst cases — low- and middle-income countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America, that are already saddled with backbreaking debt — covering the rising costs is transforming into a high-stakes test of national solvency. As spending climbs and revenue falls, the coronavirus forces a global reckoning 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Every winter, her parents travel hundreds of miles for six months of backbreaking labor in the cane fields. Schools in India have been closed since March. The costs to children are mounting. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z “Florence is very persuasive in terms of getting people to do backbreaking work,” she says. A master gardener transforms a South L.A. food desert into an edible oasis 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump has threatened companies like General Motors, Harley-Davidson and Carrier with backbreaking taxes and boycotts if they moved manufacturing abroad, often cajoling job promises out of those firms. Trump’s Manufacturing Promises Disappoint as Economy Sours 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The work is backbreaking and hazardous, but the 34-year-old Mumbua says she was left without a choice after she lost her cleaning job at a private school when pandemic restrictions were imposed. From ‘role models’ to sex workers: Kenya’s child labor rises 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Hart tried to intercept, but errantly deflected the puck into his own net for a backbreaking insurance goal from which the Flyers couldn’t recover. Plenty of recent Seattle-area history in Flyers vs. Islanders, one of NHL’s feature playoff matchups 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He would spend the next half-century in the North, most of that time doing backbreaking work in its coal mines. For P.O.W., Landmark Verdict Against North Korea Is Long-Overdue Justice 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z And while in Melville’s epic the backbreaking work of whaling yields substantial gains, here the nets come up empty. Review: A powerful climate novel reminds us that people are animals too 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The family's low social status relegated them to backbreaking jobs and dim prospects. The Korean War prisoners who never came home 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The Black men and women who revolted against white enslavers were clear about their intentions: they only wanted wages for the backbreaking work in the sugar cane fields. 'Riots', 'mobs', 'chaos': the establishment always frames change as dangerous | Keisha N Blain and Tom Zoellner 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Some of the men showed signs of nutritional deficiencies, skull and leg fractures and shoulder deformities, suggesting they performed backbreaking work and suffered harsh physical abuse. 3 Africans in Mexico City Grave Tell Stories of Slavery’s Toll 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But here’s the hitch: Picking soft berries and leafy greens requires considerable skill and backbreaking physical toil for low pay. Prince Charles wants furloughed workers to pick berries. Farmers wonder if Brits are up to the task. 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Greater transparency might enable a better chance of not only lessening hardware’s environmental impact but also improving the allegedly backbreaking work conditions in developing nations that continue to prop up the industry. The many ways video game development impacts the climate crisis 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z They’re the ones who, back in 2011, imposed a backbreaking set of conditions for people to collect unemployment, along with reducing state benefits to as few as 12 weeks. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Probably the biggest issue facing the $1.1 trillion company is persistent complaints by warehouse workers of grueling hours of backbreaking work with little protection against catching the coronavirus. Pandemic brings fortunes to Amazon—and headaches too 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In the past, he said, everyone tackled the backbreaking work as a team. Centuries-old acequia cleaning tradition hurt by COVID-19 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z “I really think, unfortunately, that this is it,” Lois told Howard, recognizing the backbreaking project that lay ahead to convert the factory into a home and art studio. Special Report: Married for 50 years, a couple are separated by the coronavirus 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Like the garbage haulers who continue the backbreaking work of collecting our trash. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z For many Palestinian consumers, the appreciation of the tedious, backbreaking work involved in akoub collection and preparation contributes to its high price and status as an artisanal product. For Israelis and Palestinians, a battle over a humble plant 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z For much of Western history, declining birthrates reflected straightforward gains to human welfare: victories over infant mortality, over backbreaking agrarian economies, over confining expectations for young women. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z With their season on the line in the AFC championship game, the Chiefs yielded an overtime touchdown drive to the Patriots on which they allowed two backbreaking third-and-long conversions. Tyrann Mathieu knows exactly what you’re planning to do next 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z As a result, African Americans "typically wound up in dirty, backbreaking, unskilled, and low-paying occupations." Moderate Democrats are celebrating MLK. He was disgusted by them 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Rodgers and Adams again connected for a backbreaking play late. Packers receiver Davante Adams wreaks havoc on the Seahawks secondary: ‘It hurts’ 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z It was there in the statistics — seven catches for 160 yards and that backbreaking TD that showed off all of his physical gifts. Seahawks rookie DK Metcalf gets world’s attention — including LeBron James — with record-setting day 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z It was backbreaking work from dawn to dusk, and he lost the top of his right index finger in an accident. Down in the pits: Modi’s cleanliness drive has made little difference for those who toil in India’s sewers 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z It was “backbreaking work” made worse by the hostility of communist co-workers who resented working with the manager’s son, Mr. Rohatyn later wrote in his 2010 memoir, “Dealings.” Felix Rohatyn, Wall Street wizard who helped save NYC from bankruptcy, dies at 91 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z But the most infuriating part of this is that Bezos’s incomprehensible wealth is only made possible due to the backbreaking work of these same underpaid employees. How to avoid Amazon this holiday season 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Andrew Cancio is boxing’s blue-collar champion, balancing a backbreaking, full-time job as a construction technician at Southern California Gas Co. by day, and moonlighting as a fighter by night. World champion Andrew Cancio seeks due respect from Golden Boy, sanctioning bodies 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z After intermission, Toronto continued to set the terms, pushing for the backbreaking goal. D.C. United’s season ends with extra-time collapse in MLS playoffs 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z She remained a fervent, lifelong supporter of the revolution, reportedly even joining other city-dwelling Cubans for backbreaking sugarcane harvest campaigns ordered by Castro. Alicia Alonso, the grande dame of Cuban ballet, has died 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Minor misunderstandings can lead to major coverage gaps, and that enables explosive, backbreaking plays such as DeSean Jackson’s 53-yard touchdown that gave the Philadelphia Eagles the lead for good in Week 1. Jon Bostic is the voice of a Redskins defense scrambling for answers - The Washington Post 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z It was a costly mistake for a team that’s grown accustomed to such backbreaking errors on special teams over the last two seasons. USC's special teams coach doesn't seem too concerned about his unit's struggles 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The outdoors was often the site of horrific abuse and backbreaking work for enslaved Africans, a fact capable of traveling through generations. At an urban farm in Baltimore, plans for activism, African American history and maybe even a tiny house - The Washington Post 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z This time it was a backbreaking 12-play, 50-yard drive that chewed up 5:19 and again ended in an Ellison touchdown. Flint Hill escapes early trouble to beat Paul VI for 23rd straight win 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z It is backbreaking labor, but there is no shortage of workers in a nation where 90 percent of people survive on less than $2 per day. Madagascar forest destruction wiping out humans' tiniest relative 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “The artifacts on view are meant to help visitors understand how forgotten workers had to endure hazardous, unfair conditions, in addition to backbreaking labor,” said Leibhold. 'Forgotten by society' – how Chinese migrants built the transcontinental railroad 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Facing the possibility of major defections, a roster implosion or a backbreaking salary cap position, Brand tap-danced his way through the minefield in impressive fashion. Analysis | 76ers emerge from inventive free agency as true contenders 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Only after not enough white men signed up for the backbreaking labor did the railroad begin hiring Chinese men. Readers react to coverage of George Clooney's 'Catch-22' and more 'Game of Thrones' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z These men risked their lives hammering and detonating gunpowder, surviving avalanches and extreme conditions — engaging in the kind of backbreaking, chisel-to-granite “bone-work” that others refused to do. Perspective | Racists kicked my Chinese ancestor out of America. He still loved the railroad he worked on. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Most of this backbreaking labor was performed by African slaves. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “Sam’s there covered in sweat and working backbreaking hours,” says filmmaker Kate Brooks, who followed Wasser and Hoareau as they processed a shipment of smuggled tusks in Singapore for her documentary “The Last Animals.” Sam Wasser pours his intense passion for protecting wildlife into research and catching poachers 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z It was backbreaking work, but then that’s the magic of gardening: The hard labor you put in at the front end produces something beautiful, if fleeting, at the back end. Perspective | Talk about a farm team: Loudoun County is handing out farmer trading cards 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “Strawberry picking is a young person’s game,” Wishnatzki observed of the backbreaking nature of the job. The Age of Robot Farmers 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The improved defensive effort didn’t last, however, and the Wizards couldn’t stop Collison and Matthews from draining backbreaking threes from before Sabonis’s critical layup. Wizards unable to climb out of 17-point hole, drop fourth straight 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z “Farmworkers who toil on the land to put food on the American table do backbreaking work while working with carbon and toxic chemicals.” Cap and trade: Oregon lawmakers work to adopt policy 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z The three men net roughly 10 grams of gold monthly from backbreaking work. How Venezuela turns its useless bank notes into gold 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z But she said she moved to the United States two years ago because, even if farm labor is backbreaking, her life and prospects are better here than in Mexico. Border Residents Shrug at Trump’s Dire Warnings: ‘They Make Me Laugh’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Despite hours of backbreaking labor, she was never quite able to achieve stability. Review | From middle class to homeless: A mother’s unapologetic memoir 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z It was the Bahamians who lived on Exuma who did the bulk of the backbreaking manual labor and service labor for the festival -- and who, both documentaries reveal, were largely unpaid for their work. For millions of workers, Fyre Festival is a familiar tale 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Lee said he endured endless hours of backbreaking labor seven days a week — constantly hungry and impossibly exhausted — constructing apartment buildings in Pyongyang for the elite. South Korea envisions a building boom in the North. But Pyongyang still relies on ‘forced labor’ brigades. 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z In the lettuce fields of California’s Salinas Valley, a new machine plies row after row of romaine lettuce, doing the backbreaking work, long performed by people, of lobbing heads of romaine lettuce from the field. 8 Million People Are Working Illegally in the U.S. Here’s Why That’s Unlikely to Change. 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Nearby, larger robots did the backbreaking, repetitive work of lifting and stacking filled-up cartons. As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Instead, Alex Smith threw a backbreaking interception in the end zone that Houston rookie safety Justin Reid returned for a touchdown. Analysis | Redskins-Texans takeaways: Houston hangs on for 23-21 win after Alex Smith injury, questionable penalty 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Harvesting it is backbreaking labor, but it’s both delicious and lucrative. In Russian Village Swallowed by Sand, Life’s a Beach. Just Not in a Good Way. 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The backbreaking work was often carried out within range of German artillery and snipers, resulting in several deaths. The Caribbean's overlooked WW1 soldiers 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z “And those guys did all the backbreaking work with hand tools and their sweat equity.” Nature trail built by inmates opens on Arkansas lake island 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Walking back after four hours of backbreaking work, I would glance at the gated pool area. Diary Of A Female Caddie - Golf Digest 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The work is messy and backbreaking, plus you run the risk of damaging load-bearing walls or buried plumbing and electrical lines. 5 tips for staying on budget during a remodel (yes, really) | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z For hours, his nieces and nephews did backbreaking work, hauling away giant pieces of concrete in hopes of uncovering the buried members of their family. The earthquake took his mother and sister. Now, it's time to turn the page - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Lander is among the handful of remaining professional “charcoal cookers,” the name given by locals to the backbreaking and painstaking process of turning firewood into the lightweight pieces of carbon. Charcoal makers in Spain keep embers of an old trade burning 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Jute remains among the most labor-intensive products in the modern world, starting with the backbreaking summer harvest. India sees an ancient textile, produced in colonial-era mills, as a fabric of the future 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z But his ability to facilitate an offense, lulling an opposing defense to a false sense of defensive security while setting that same squad up for a backbreaking P&R alley-oop, is second to none. Analysis | NBA draft surprises: A Trae Young-Luka Doncic trade, and a long tumble for Michael Porter Jr. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z After decades of backbreaking work, dracunculiasis is one of two human diseases on the brink of eradication. Nearly Eradicated in Humans, the Guinea Worm Finds New Victims: Dogs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z He started slipping suggestive notes beneath her bedroom door and added backbreaking work to her chores as she rejected his advances. 150 years on, ‘Little Women’ and its author still resonate 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z These are backbreaking vocations that chew people up and spit them out the second they aren’t useful anymore. Trump’s pandering to working-class voters has a long and ugly history: My family fell for it 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The Warriors outscored the Cavaliers by eight points in the third quarter, still unable to orchestrate in this series the type of backbreaking third quarters they made typical heading into The Finals. Warriors come from behind to beat the Cavaliers 110-102, take a commanding 3-0 series lead 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z How many times have we seen the Capitals dominate play, ring a shot off a post with an open net, and then give up a backbreaking power-play goal in the other direction? It’s all happening. The Capitals are one win away from the Stanley Cup. 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z That and the backbreaking, unceasing nature of farm work — the rituals of the rural year from planting seeds to milking cows and harvesting wheat. Intimate epic 'The Guardians' distills how war changes everything for a French family California is an agricultural state and it needs agricultural workers and few are willing to do the backbreaking work and so it relies on those here without paperwork, who have few choices. ‘I Am a Pawn’: Trump’s Immigration Fight With California Squeezes Those Caught in the Middle 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Though finding a dinosaur bone in a vast desert may seem akin to a needle in a haystack, it was also the product of backbreaking work. Rare dinosaur discovery in Egypt could signal more finds 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z My grandmother was given excellent care for very low pay by a Filipino man for years - he was incredibly kind and good to her, despite the backbreaking and often unrewarding work. If Immigrants Are Pushed Out, Who Will Care for the Elderly? 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In Mr. Rich’s Crescent City, Creole cornet player Isadore Zeno labors at backbreaking day jobs in order to support his pregnant wife, while also trying to serve his artistic muse. Mysteries: The Killer in the Crescent City 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The work in those walled-off institutions was backbreaking and often required handling dangerous chemicals. A Blot on Ireland’s Past, Facing Demolition 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z After one of Georgia’s most heartbreaking, backbreaking losses in its celebrated history, there is precious little consolation. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Once, they made up for that with backbreaking labor that workers traveled dozens of miles to neighboring counties or states to do, but those jobs are harder to find. In the heart of Trump Country, his base’s faith is unshaken 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The work was backbreaking, the wages poor – €150 a week at most – and he says his employer was violent and abusive. 'An employer? No, we have a master': the Sikhs secretly exploited in Italy | Daniela Sala 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z After all those years of making quick money, the backbreaking labour was an unpleasant dose of reality. One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Through Jessica , the nation had briefly been transported back to a time when anything seemed possible with enough prayer and hard, selfless, backbreaking work. Baby Jessica's Rescue from a Well Capped Off a Terrifying Week in U.S. History 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The jobs may be seasonal or not pay as well as mining jobs; on the other hand, they are not as backbreaking and they foster a local creative class. In Northern Minnesota, Two Economies Square Off: Mining vs. Wilderness 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Medrano, founder and owner of CoCal Landscape, had spent more than $32,000 recruiting and securing visas for the Mexican migrants after scrambling to find Americans willing to do backbreaking work under the Colorado sun. A landscaper’s ‘hire American’ plan ended with bringing in Mexican workers to finish the job 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Instead of pursuing big goals, they became captives of their backbreaking schedules. The American presidency: a job just too huge for any leader 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z It was an awful, awful, awful, filthy, distressing, boring, time-consuming, backbreaking job. ‘Just Use the China’ or ‘Call 1-800-Got-Junk’: Readers on Inheriting Keepsakes 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Ellis notes that the backbreaking work required to harvest cotton had created a Southern economy that depended on slavery, while Northern states had peacefully and gradually emancipated their slaves, setting up an inherent conflict. Historians: Robert E. Lee and George Washington Are Not Equivalent 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z He fled war-torn Syria and worked backbreaking 12-hour shifts in his home country and Jordan before making his way to the United States. In California's poultry plants, refugees fill the vacuum left after President Bush's immigration raid 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The cave was a welcome distraction from the backbreaking work of rebuilding the mill town’s commercial core, which had suffered tens of millions of dollars of damage. A historic Maryland flood uncovers a secret cave and a mystery: What was it used for? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z That they had no choice in their food, lodging or whether they even wanted to do the backbreaking work of building Washington by hand was nowhere to be found in O’Reilly’s version. Perspective | Sally Hemings wasn’t Thomas Jefferson’s mistress. She was his property. 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Admittedly the work isn’t quite as backbreaking as in decades past, thanks to newer fishing equipment and navigation technology as well as changes to fishing quotas. Meet the skippers of Fishermen’s Terminal | Provided By Port of Seattle 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z With few options for work, I worked at horrid meatpacking plants, and a long series of filthy, backbreaking jobs. My adopted homeland’s compassion is needed now more than ever 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z And yet, for hundreds of years, Americans have not only survived heartbreaking, backbreaking periods but also stood tall in them. Letter of Recommendation: Presidential Biographies 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Gotham rose on the backbreaking labor of immigrants who had transformed New York, as James Bryce wrote, into “a European city of no particular country.” ‘Gotham Rising’: Exploring the Decade When New York Grew Up 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The realities that cause people to need lifesaving disability income range from inadequate or nonexistent health care to backbreaking manual labor that often leads to career-ending injuries. Opinion | Disability and desperation are not mutually exclusive 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z We jolt in our jeep over backbreaking rocks, where the track of an ancient road has lately been just made out. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z We see women as success stories, but we don’t see the backbreaking part of it. Q&A: Female paleontologists protest gender stereotypes—with beards 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Charlotte hated governessing and in her letters she railed against its petty humiliations, backbreaking work and appalling pay. Anne Brontë: the sister who got there first 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Roughly 325,000 workers in California do the backbreaking jobs that farmers say nobody else will do, according to the U.S. Trump's deportation vow spurs California farmers into action 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Subject to hours of backbreaking labor, some of the fishermen began finding it hard to breathe. Greenpeace: Thai fishing boats sail far to avoid regulations 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z As if a sham of a trial, torturous conditions and backbreaking labor were not enough to underscore his descent into slavery, Cottenham was required to labor in chains. Homeless and harassed: Why police are encouraged to search the black community for fines and arrests 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But his biggest issue as a rookie was fumbling, and he lost a backbreaking red zone fumble during a loss in Detroit seven weeks ago. ‘I don’t know how I got through it': How to survive an NFL benching 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z There was no backbreaking run this time in the Clippers’ latest loss, only a gradual run for the other team. With the Clippers faltering, Doc Rivers tinkers with his bench 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Florida: The Gators must address their offensive woes after another shaky performance, which included those three backbreaking interceptions in the first half. No. 1 Alabama romps past Florida 54-16 in SEC title game 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z The journey to Curaçao takes them on a 60-mile crossing filled with backbreaking swells, gangs of armed boatmen and coast guard vessels looking to capture migrants and send them home. Hungry Venezuelans Flee in Boats to Escape Economic Collapse 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The work is not only backbreaking, but also dangerous. What the label on your Thanksgiving turkey won’t tell you 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “These are old backbreaking places,” said Randy Robertson, the 51-year-old master of Lock and Dam No. 53. Desperately Plugging Holes in an 87-Year-Old Dam 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Jaramillo had been pulled over as he drove from the chili fields outside of Roswell, where he had worked backbreaking shifts for most of his life, starting at 5am and finishing at sunset. One man's death hints at the wretched medical care in private immigration prisons 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z As I say, that little jolly consumed 17 backbreaking and cruelly fruitless months of Alam’s existence. Infantino’s jetsetting contrasts grimly with migrant worker’s Fifa case | Marina Hyde 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z It is a society turned upside down, a place where educated people abandon once-comfortable jobs in the city for dangerous, backbreaking work in muddy pits, desperate to make ends meet. Hard Times in Venezuela Breed Malaria as Desperate Flock to Mines 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z This is a serious violation of International Labour Organisation convention, yet investigators for Danwatch found evidence that thousands of students were doing the same work and backbreaking hours there as the adults – but costing less. Your new iPhone’s features include oppression, inequality – and vast profit | Aditya Chakrabortty 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z So this year, the California Conservation Corps reopened a camp to train three crews of young civilians to do the same backbreaking work as the inmates. California turns to civilians as inmate firefighters dwindle 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Sure, General Tso’s chicken is an Americanized take on the food of people who helped with the backbreaking labor of building a nation. Taco trucks: As American as lo mein and pizza pie 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z None of the backbreaking scrubbing of spring cleaning! Watching a laser machine gun clean rusty metal is a perfect midweek meditation 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z He often woke at sunrise to plant rice and never complained about the village’s many hardships — the backbreaking labor, the occasional shortages of food. In China, a disappearance, a fatal crash and a man who came back from the dead 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Instead of a promised land of plenty, they struggled to find even low-paying, backbreaking jobs on farms and many starved to death. A Californian town laid low by cheap oil - BBC News 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z When Orwell visited Wigan, however, the working class existed as a clear socioeconomic category defined by backbreaking work for near-starvation wages in coal mines and factories. Wigan’s Road to Brexit: Anger, Loss and Class Resentments 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z In detailing the horrors of slavery, whippings, family separations and backbreaking labor, they provided an effective riposte to the proslavery argument that painted a picture of benevolent slaveholders and contented slaves. What You Still Don't Know About Abolitionists 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Such harvesting is backbreaking work, particularly compared with the tractor-driven, industrial farming commonly used for peas. Top Chefs and Local Farmers in Spain Regenerate Their ‘Green Caviar’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Fishing is a backbreaking occupation that requires leaving home for weeks or months at a time. The Environment Is the Silent Casualty of Beijing’s Ambitions in the South China Sea 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z After prison, he worked jobs that required long hours and backbreaking labor, but he played music in the evenings. Keep Chuck Brown’s legacy go-going 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z How could he have seen Mary and Joseph at their backbreaking chores and not have been grieved by the glaring disparities in wealth? The Challenge of Easter 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Immigrant workers, especially, who leave their countries for backbreaking work that few in the host countries is willing to do, remain in society’s peripheral vision. Migrants Working Far Away in European Fields 1465-01-07T05:00:00Z The protest was unsanctioned, which meant that every one of the participants was risking arrest followed by a backbreaking fine or a jail sentence. Alexey Navalny’s Very Strange Form of Freedom 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z He also connected on a backbreaking 3-pointer in the fourth quarter when the Bucks were chipping away at the Knicks’ lead. With Unselfish Play, Knicks Are Winning the Games They Used to Lose 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z By age 6, he was adept at the backbreaking rice-planting in the family’s small plots. China’s Workers Are Fighting Back as Economic Dream Fades 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Jobs in the cotton fields – poorly paid, backbreaking work – receded with the mechanisation of plantations. Poorest town in poorest state: segregation is gone but so are the jobs 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Ripped from homelands and heritage, thousands of those who would become Haitians were shipped across the Atlantic to an island, where the indigenous population had already been wiped out, for backbreaking labor in cane plantations. Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z On the road back to Hinthada we saw more farmers harvesting the rice, some with small tractors but many in the backbreaking traditional way, with small hand-held scythes. The story of a small but crucial town in Myanmar - BBC News 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z And robots with more limited ambitions are already taking over backbreaking work on factory floors and assisting surgeons for greater precision and control in operating rooms. Don’t Fear the Robots 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Instead Sunday’s comeback win turned to backbreaking loss to Washington has dropped their record to 1-3, 0-2 against teams in their division. Chip Kelly's Philadelphia Eagles Experiment goes awry 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z New Orleans’ defense held its ground for most of the second half to keep the game close before the giving up a backbreaking play. Saints settle for field goals in 31-19 loss to Cardinals 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Along with his new wife, Mary, Daniel Morgan homesteaded a donation land claim in 1849 and began the backbreaking work of carving a farm out of the wilderness. History is alive for fifth-generation Corvallis farmer 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z After World War II, sugaring became more of tradition, if a backbreaking one. Canadian Maple Syrup Producers Clash With Law 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Like countless other parents in the aftermath of the Korean War, the slash-and-burn farmers of Nogok saw education as the ticket for their children to escape lives of backbreaking work and poverty. As South Korean Villages Empty, More Primary Schools Face Closings 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z In this process, too, there would be winners and losers: those who preferred urban energy to rural somnolence, commercial and manufacturing work to backbreaking agricultural toil. Why History Urges Caution on Proposed Trade Deal 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Rep. Paul Holvey, a Eugene Democrat, said farm workers often do backbreaking work for long hours outdoors and low wages. Oregon House sends paid sick leave bill to governor 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In reality, both, until recent decades, involved backbreaking manual labor. Hey, Congress -- Free Trade Means More Jobs. So Pass TPP 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “The idea that this is going to be some big backbreaking thing doesn’t hold up.” Assembly rejects controversial transgender ‘bathroom bill’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z “I probably wasted two offensive possessions doing that. We unraveled a little bit during that time. But the backbreaking play that really made us lose our composure was that rebound by Doolittle.” Miami can’t stop Doolittle, loses to Iowa 88-70 in NCAA play 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Health care, our most information-intensive industry, is plagued by demonstrably spotty quality, millions of errors and backbreaking costs. Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z The White family is in the minority in their new town, which is composed mainly of Latino pickers — men and women who do the backbreaking work of harvesting fruits, vegetables and nuts. Kevin Costner stars in predictable feel-good sports movie, ‘McFarland, USA’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The afternoon of his first full day on the farm, Hong erupted as Kim struggled with the backbreaking work, according to the prosecutors' indictment that a judge based Hong's sentence on. 'A living hell' for slaves on remote South Korean islands 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Johnson was targeted 12 times and made six receptions for 103 yards Sunday, but there was no backbreaking play. Bears season in rubble, but some building blocks are emerging 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The backbreaking development work, however, occurs at smaller, mid-stage biotech companies rarely valued correctly by the market. Merck Triggers The Race to Replace Cubist 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Still, coal extraction is no longer just the backbreaking work associated with mines in Britain in the 1930s: men on their knees in low spaces, shoveling out coal. The Mine Disaster That Shook Turkey 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Isaacson’s story is a happy one about the erasure of backbreaking work wrought by technological advancement, not to mention how very much today’s technologists stand on the shoulders of the innovative giants of the past. Walter Isaacson's 'The Innovators' Reveals The Job-Creating Genius Behind Job Destruction 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Charles had multiple backbreaking runs running up the gut, including a 29-yard burst through the “A” gap. Seahawks vs. Chiefs: National media on what went wrong, Seattle's playoff hopes 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z When Mr. Dell first proposed taking his company private, Dell was handicapped by declining computer prices and backbreaking failure to get into hot markets like mobile computing. Dell’s Life After Wall Street 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Defensively, Washington stormed around Tony Romo until they knocked him into a fetal position, without giving up any backbreaking deep balls. Washington Redskins finally get a big victory over Dallas Cowboys But paying to simulate backbreaking labor under the watchful eye of a demanding authority figure seems to be a common desire these days. Why Are Americans So Fascinated With Extreme Fitness? 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z "Innovative" is not a word people usually use to describe China, but entrepreneur Joanna Wei is trying to do her part to change the perception of a country filled with cheap knock-offs and backbreaking sweatshops. Hi-tech education for Chinese children 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Carroll: It was a real backbreaking fumble for us. Quotes from Seattle coach Pete Carroll following preseason loss at Oakland 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z But backbreaking labor in Kuwait, Malaysia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the most popular destinations outside of neighboring India, has resulted in a troubling number of deaths. In Nepal, a Better Life With a Steep Price 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z These battles to become an N.F.L. first-stringer are waged across weeks and spread over a numbing succession of backbreaking practices staged under a broiling sun. Giants Kickers Josh Brown and Rookie Brandon McManus Competing in Camp 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Her hair was cut off, and she was tattooed and forced to do backbreaking labor. Amid the Rap Music, Echoes of an Orchestra Playing in a Dark Past 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Work was backbreaking, and you labored from dawn till dusk, every day over your 40 year life expectancy. Stanford Divests from Coal—Good Choice or Bad Call? 2014-05-07T18:28:59Z Even as the family grew, she had faded into the background, immersing herself in the drudgery of dull and backbreaking chores. India's invisible widows, divorcees and singles 2014-03-07T22:27:09Z It is common here for women to do backbreaking work in the fields, but Januka is seven months pregnant. Seven months pregnant and working in the fields 2014-02-24T00:02:25Z The American economy relied heavily on the success of the farmer who might spend an entire day doing backbreaking work in the fields to plow or harvest only a single acre. Scientific American’s Owner Built the First New York Subway [Excerpt] 2014-02-21T16:00:00Z The special teams gave up a backbreaking kickoff return for a touchdown to start the second half. Super Bowl loss leaves Peyton Manning and Broncos dealing with another disappointing end 2014-02-03T05:28:11Z Mr McGee said certain shifts took on legendary status among dockers thanks to the backbreaking quantities of cargo that were moved. Celebrating 50 years of Tees Dock 2013-10-01T05:31:37Z “But then in the second half, they started being able to run and pass, and that was backbreaking,” Tuck said. Broncos 41, Giants 23: A Little Brother Learns a Lesson as the Giants Sputter to 0-2 2013-09-16T02:47:24Z She figured she’d never have a legal spouse to help with the backbreaking work. Among Indian tribes, a division over gay marriage 2013-05-12T23:07:34Z Most focused on mechanizing processes that previously required backbreaking toil or the fine work of human hands. Making the Future with Manufacturing Advances 2013-04-16T16:15:02.897Z While an Egyptian pharaoh built majestic temples filled with sparkling treasures, the lower classes performed backbreaking work on meager diets, new evidence suggests. 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Skeletons Reveal Lower Classes' Hard Lives 2013-03-19T17:15:00.547Z Fellow dockers Terry Brown, 71, and Trevor Hodgson, 68, agreed that despite the backbreaking work, the atmosphere on shift meant time often flew by. Celebrating 50 years of Tees Dock 2013-10-01T05:31:37Z We don’t bemoan those productivity gains or the loss of the backbreaking jobs that once defined agriculture. 6 Ways Robots Create Jobs 2013-01-22T14:35:00Z "You look at a lot of those, they were kind of backbreaking scores there late, long runs after long runs," Raiders linebacker Dave Tollefson said. Raiders rally comes up short in 42-32 loss to Bucs 2012-11-05T05:46:03Z That backbreaking work persuaded him to build a brick press. The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm 2012-11-02T01:22:11Z But because, in total, archaeologists have unearthed so few ancient Egyptian cemeteries in which the non-elite were buried, it's possible that these backbreaking conditions prevailed across Egypt at the time, Stevens said. 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Skeletons Reveal Lower Classes' Hard Lives 2013-03-19T17:15:00.547Z “The old theory was as soon as fewer people are doing backbreaking work, there will be fewer claims,” Mr. Salisbury said. Wealth Matters: Determining if Disability Insurance Is Necessary 2012-10-19T23:27:33Z For decades, the number of farmers has been shrinking as a share of the population, and agriculture has often been seen as a backbreaking profession with little prestige. The Farm Life Draws Some Students for Post-Graduate Work 2012-09-25T01:46:10Z Cloudy skies have produced a succession of storms that has brought mud and backbreaking struggle for those caught in the saturated environment. Rough Is Rougher, but British Open Forecast Brightens 2012-07-18T18:39:05Z First, he planted chilis for a farmer, earning $10 a day for backbreaking work in the searing summer heat. Born To Run 2012-06-25T05:00:00Z Gardening—whether as a community or an individual— is difficult, backbreaking work. Michelle Obama's Garden and the Problem With Growing Your Own Food 2012-05-30T12:05:21Z Digging and panning for diamonds by hand is backbreaking work, but for many people it is the only work available. Sierra Leone 'blood diamonds' not forever 2012-05-21T00:33:02Z Apparently, even those conditions, so abhorrent to us, are actually better than these workers’ alternatives: backbreaking rural farm work that doesn’t prepare them to move up the work force food chain. Pogue's Posts: What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found 2012-02-23T22:17:54Z That is not beneficial, that is backbreaking and plainly unfair. Virgin makes air merger complaint 2012-02-17T10:51:59Z It is what motivates a mining executive to say that he is working for the well-being of his miners, who labor under backbreaking conditions to make around $5 a week. Put an End to Blood Minerals 2011-11-01T09:44:13Z Martin ran 20 times for 200 yards and three scores and Shoemaker caught nine passes for 180 yards and two TDs in addition to his 36-yard run on the backbreaking fake punt. Rams taken by fake punt, lose to Boise State 63-13 2011-10-16T03:28:12Z After two games, Jackson hasn't made any game-changing throws, but he hasn't committed any backbreaking errors, either. Playing it safe has produced sorry results 2011-09-21T02:30:05Z Per capita, despite backbreaking poverty, that makes Guatemala’s elections among the priciest in the world. Desperate Guatemalans Embrace an ?Iron Fist? 2011-09-10T03:00:04Z The backbreaking duty of carrying mortars and rice sacks all day with meager provisions of food and water was the least oppressive part of his ordeal. Why Being Forced into Military Labor Can Be a Death Sentence for Convicts in Burma 2011-07-13T05:55:00Z For many, survival meant 14-hour days of backbreaking work, often on little more than a cupful of rice or a smattering of gruel. Cambodia After Year Zero 2011-06-24T16:26:38Z The same drug that helps laborers endure backbreaking work in the fields allows affluent urbanites to party till dawn. How Asia's Notorious Golden Triangle Drug Zone Reinvented Itself 2011-05-31T19:30:00Z He chats about the devious nature of straying wives, the strain of backbreaking jobs and the many odd things he has seen happen aboard this very train. | New Jersey: Strangers on a Train, Destination Unknown 2011-05-07T00:56:45Z His father, a former schoolteacher from Kabul, struggles to feed the family on no more than $100 a month, doing backbreaking work at a brick kiln near Peshawar. How Afghan Insurgents Recruit High-School Students 2011-04-24T16:00:00Z Before and after school, Mr. Chu helped with the backbreaking tasks of the tannery—polishing leather hides, hammering nails into them to help them dry and then removing the nails by hand. A Passage From India 2011-04-09T02:13:46Z The same scenario would play out four more times before Dickey's backbreaking 3-pointer in the final two minutes. UNC Asheville wins Big South title, NCAA bid 2011-03-05T23:43:56Z Dollar said the sequence wasn't backbreaking, noting his team still held the lead. Redhawks men waste big lead, fall to Aggies 2011-02-16T06:41:41Z Dangerous, backbreaking tasks are now performed by robots. With IBM's Watson on 'Jeopardy!,' how trivial is trivia? 2011-02-10T05:00:00Z It was measuring the cosmic expansion that was the most backbreaking part of fulfilling Hubble’s legacy. Allan Sandage, Astronomer, Dies at 84; Charted Cosmos?s Age and Expansion 2010-11-18T07:20:00Z It is only fitting that the most effective way to address it would be through small, low-key and often backbreaking interventions. Letter from India: The Mystery of Economic Growth 2010-10-21T11:00:00Z Long hours, lousy working conditions, backbreaking labor, low pay? Lou Dobbs' illegal immigrants 2010-10-07T14:15:00Z The mills, many of them American owned and managed, fielded teams drawn from the thousands of young men who cut cane, a dreadful, backbreaking job from which baseball offered respite. Book Review - The Eastern Stars - By Mark Kurlansky 2010-07-04T03:40:00Z Migrant farm workers, many of them Mexicans who are in the country illegally, remain desperately poor, traveling across the country for sporadic stretches of backbreaking work, vulnerable to gouging by contractors and afraid to complain. Government Cracks Down on Farmers Who Hire Children 2010-06-19T01:14:00Z Prisoners looked forward to the matches for days as they worked backbreaking 10 hours shifts in the quarry and endured the brutality of the guards. Robben Island reminds of liberating power of soccer 2010-06-14T09:53:00Z Isaac is obsessed by photographing labourers turning vineyard soil in the old, traditional, backbreaking way. The Strange Case of Manoel de Oliveira, still making films at 101 2010-05-13T18:45:00Z The villages along the river are emptying because mechanized wine making requires less labor; what backbreaking labor remains is done now by Poles, Ukrainians or Romanians. ?rzig Journal: Before a Bridge Slices Through Vineyards, It Divides German Winemakers 2010-05-12T00:48:00Z James said they were “definitely backbreaking shots, momentum shots.” Cavaliers 121, Bulls 98: James and Cavaliers Lead Bulls, 3-1 2010-04-26T03:20:00Z Mafia link The BBC's David Willey in Rome says many of the migrants from north and west Africa have been earning starvation wages as fruit and vegetable pickers - backbreaking work which Italians do not want. 2010-01-10T15:29:00Z It is backbreaking work which Italians now shun. 2010-01-10T14:04:00Z All they had to look forward to from the D'zertanoj was backbreaking labor and an early death. The Ethical Engineer It will take some backbreaking investigation to get the whole story, because the files show nothing on any of them. The Electronic Mind Reader And under the grueling pressure of fourteen-hour days, filled with backbreaking exercises and long forced marches, very few of the boys can find anything more desirable than sleep—and more sleep. Stand by for Mars! There had been experimenting with education ever since the Industrial Revolution uncovered the fact, in about 1900, that backbreaking physical toil was going to be replaced by educated workers operating machinery. The Fourth R Much of the work was drudgery; most of it was backbreaking and laborious. One Basket Truly, Si'Wren observed meekly, a woman's place was under a man's protection, for what woman could match such men in the daily toil of such backbreaking labors as this? Si'Wren of the Patriarchs To Link it seemed that nothing could save Chum from a backbreaking blow from the huge club. His Dog |
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