Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feels optimistic about his chances against the Terriers and the Owls, and because his charges meet Hofstra in the final meet of the arduous afternoon, he hopes that the Dutchmen will be tired and ripe for an upset...
...should choose to emulate me). However, the means of Publick convayence were decidedly inferior then to what they have become today. I do certify that, to travel from the Hermitage to Washington, I myself had to board a flatboat and then a steamboat, disembarking at Pittsburgh to complete another arduous journey by overland stagecoach. Even the lure of a day in the capital could not persuade more than a Fraction of my ardent partisans to undergo weeks of such travail...
Gerald "Joe" Restic sat quietly on the Square Office of Dillon Field House as his wife, Betty confronted the throng of reporters outside the door. Restic, the apparent loser of a long and arduous battle for the Ivy League title, was too tired and hoarse to deliver the message himself...
...nerve intact and their carbide lamps lit while jammed into mud-choked fistulas less than a foot high. The authors' implied comparison of Kentucky caving with the climbing of Everest is a mild hype, neither necessary nor justified; Everest is far deadlier, and an expedition there requires several arduous weeks, not the 24 to 36 hours of a Flint Ridge cave crawl. But caving is difficult enough to call for a rare sort of courage and endurance. A common technique, horrifying to imagine, is to exhale in order to reduce the size of the rib cage, then squiggle along...
...some of the 300 functions to which he was invited. They easily barged into the bash thrown by Rolling Stone, while such luminaries as Bella Abzug, Warren Beatty and Lauren Bacall waited futilely in line outside. The brothers devoted two hours every morning to meeting the press-no arduous exercise since the same questions were asked over and over again...