Word: arduous
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...Sierra Club band strode off behind him into sun-dappled woods, up a winding creek bed. Many had walked no farther than the distance from living-room sofa to TV tuning dial in years. For these, the brisk uphill pace, over boulders, across the brooks and fallen trees, was arduous going. By the time they sprawled out for lunch, on ledge rocks by a waterfall, blisters were rising on tender feet...
Late Saturday afternoon a Yale admissions officer took a five minute respite from the arduous task of selecting freshmen who couldn't go to Harvard and turned his mind to the athletic progress of this year's freshmen. He was astounded...
That is how things go at Lyndon's breezy, informal parties for Congress. The White House has never seen the likes of it. For years the annual congressional reception was an arduous affair of white ties, weak drinks and two-hour reception lines. The Kennedys began to loosen it up by substituting black ties for white and abolishing the receiving line, but the reception was still quite a crush, with more than 500 legislators and their wives on hand. Now Johnson has scrapped the one big bash for nine smaller, more intimate parties...
...fleet, now swollen to some 20 vessels, looked out on a vast scene of lifeboat debris and bobbing bodies. Despite the calm seas, it was not easy to pick them up. The rafts and lifeboats kept banging into the windward side of the waiting merchantmen; hour after hour the arduous task continued, until at last all the living and dead were hauled aboard. On the Salta, which picked up 478 people from the sea, cognac and blankets were passed out to the shivering survivors, but the crush was so great that soon there was not enough of either...
...Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs is charged with the responsibility of recommending approval or disapproval of the formation of all undergraduate organizations, or any constitutional changes of those organizations. In most cases, this is merely a routine, formal matter. However, we were faced with an arduous task when we were presented the constitution of the proposed Harvard African and Afro-American Association. While at the same time we highly welcomed an organization with the general aims and principles of the Association, we were deeply disturbed by the membership clause, which appeared to exclude a good many people. Consequently...