Word: arduous
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...arduous task ahead will be to restore political and economic stability to the hate-riven, impoverished nation. While the Administration so far has managed to block a regime that it does not want, it has yet to win the kind of government it wants. The dilemma, despite Johnson's oft-stated aim to establish "a broad-based" government, is that: 1) there are no centrist parties of any strength, and 2) the individual hatreds of possible leaders are hard to reconcile...
...organized to affirm, to assert in ways that are "refreshingly radical," and to interrogate further a group of cultural and historical aspirations which we believe we share. This, in a world and a country whose affairs are as confused as ours, is an arduous, conflicted, and often painful task. The rational task is made all the more difficult because, when we dare to think that we might be coming to terms with others as human beings, we discover that basic terms of our discussion--the "racial" definitions that have brought us thus far through history--themselves divide us emotionally into...
Work on a play begins with the arduous process of casting. Preliminary blocking is done in a practice room with tape on the floor to guide the actors. of Particular importance are the exits and entrances. The sequence of movements must be clear: yet vivid and illuminating...
...touring the country in the cause of trimmer teenagers, Brown flopped on the light grey carpet in his Sacramento executive suite for an exhibition of gubernatorial pushups. He got up-and down-to four, took a gasper, and then did three more before returning to less arduous duties. "I haven't," breathed Pat, "done this in a long time...
Into the Pot. Only some 5% of the 4,000 languages spoken today have managed the arduous transition to writing -a trip that all but the few that still use ideograms, like Chinese, owe to the Semitic tribes who traded with Athens 27 centuries ago. The Semites had a phonetic script so much more resourceful than the Greeks' own that it was promptly adopted. From Greece this alphabet spread to Rome, and from there Rome's conquering legions took it all over Europe, including England...