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...November 1967 Vance achieved his greatest success-helping avert a war between Greece and Turkey over the disputed island of Cyprus. In 1968 he plunged into an equally arduous but less rewarding mission: serving as Ambassador Averell Harriman's deputy during the lengthy and unsuccessful Paris negotiations to settle the Viet Nam War. Although Vance had been an early supporter of the war, he gradually began urging that the U.S. agree to an eventual withdrawal of its troops as one condition of a ceasefire. Later he criticized Richard Nixon for taking too hard a line with the North Vietnamese...
...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...