Word: arduous
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...camp in Florida's swamp country, where the balmy climate approximates that of tropical Viet Nam. They were warned to expect terrorist attacks, told never to travel at night for fear of ambush, and informed about the standoffish peasants' social and religious taboos. The most arduous aspect of the course was learning the language from three Vietnamese instructors (heo is pig, bap is corn, ga is chicken, and farmer is a tongue-twisting nguoi lam ruong). Kiddingly, the agents asked their Vietnamese teachers how to say "I surrender"-and were haughtily ignored by the tough former army...
...ideal of the Great Society that antedates even Lyndon Johnson's. In 1961, three years before the President's now-famous speech at Ann Arbor, Mich., Gardner wrote in a provocative essay called Excellence that Americans "long, long ago were committed, as free men, to the arduous task of building a great society-not just a strong one, not just a rich one, but a great society...
...welfare payments from Rhode Island's cities to the state. In Massachusetts, Republican John Volpe, starting his third term, declared that his state's limited 3% sales tax, enacted in 1966 after a vicious battle, should be made permanent, warned that projecting the tax structure will be "arduous, complicated and demanding," and called for a full-scale study of revenue sources. Nelson Rockefeller said he was ready to set up the machinery for New York's referendum-approved lottery, which is expected to yield upwards of $50 million for state education...
...Korean predecessor, he has known all his life that he must serve a military tour of duty, indeed has planned it along with college, marriage and choice of vocation. From the moment he arrives (usually aboard a comfortable troop ship), through his bivouac experience (under conditions less arduous than most Stateside weekend hunting camps), to combat itself (as intense as any in history, but brief), he is supported by the best that his country can offer-even though it is to fight a mean and dirty...
...determined to prove that it takes more than "a little stitchin' " to slow down a Johnson, the President maintained almost as arduous a schedule as if he were back in the White House. About the only difference was his sparing use of the telephone and-initially, at least-of his voice. "I don't have volume," he complained...