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Even Yogi Berra, a Hall of Famer, was never the great hero of the Yankees--he labored in the shadow of greater stars like Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford.
The artists who populated the auterist canon--Howard Hawks and John Ford, pre-eminently--had labored within the constraints of the studio system.
For nearly a year, while Bill Bradley labored to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, Al Gore studiously ignored him.
Editorialists labored to connect the two contrary outcomes.
It scarcely needs me to point out that English word order is indescribably complex, so it is no small wonder that in a brief work like this, while the author has labored mightily (and successfully) to identify many of its features, she has inevitably failed to cover all contingencies.