Word: arduous
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...insistence on tying the fate of American prisoners together with that of political prisoners in the South, it would be doubly difficult now to turn around and accede to any more of those demands. If anything, the bombing, far from making future negotiations easier, could make them even more arduous...
...Harvard varsity team, composed of an army of freshmen grapplers, begins a long, arduous season tomorrow against an emerging East Coast goliath...
...turning pro. So what is left for him? Trips to a few A.A.U. meets perhaps-or maybe even a crack at an Olympic gold medal, which for an amateur requires a costly expenditure of time and money for a questionable return. Miler Jim Ryun, for example, spent long, arduous years training for the 1972 Munich Olympics. Then one disastrous spill in a qualifying heat lost him the chance to compete in the big event...
...what he set out to accomplish in that area-with the notable exception of ending the war in Viet Nam-has been accomplished. Now he must turn to domestic priorities. It will be an uphill fight. Getting significant legislation through the two chambers of the Congress can be an arduous and often impossible task, even when the President's party controls both. That was a lesson John Kennedy learned. In the years to come, Nixon may well wish he had traded a few points of his victory margin for some friendly faces on the Hill...
Castaneda is a brilliant, self-mocking and-one assumes, despite the weirdness of the narrative-truthful storyteller. The account of his apprenticeship to Don Juan, with grueling desert marches and arduous disciplines, apparitions and struggles in fog and bright sunlight, as well as some mind-wrenching magic tricks, makes hypnotic reading. Don Juan and his friend, a fiercely mischievous old Mazatec Indian brujo named Don Genaro, are credited with making Castaneda's parked, locked car vanish and then materialize again from, of all things...