Word: arduous
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...hard work into that picture. It took me four years, on and off, to paint. The model who posed for it would not have been everyone's cup of tea. She had a stocky figure, long-limbed and healthy looking, but no grace or elegance. It was an arduous pose, and she behaved like an archangel though she ached like the devil afterwards...
...over a low railing on Home, kept her from dancing. As always, Arlene's personal didos were gay, frolicsome and deceptively casual. "Sometimes," she explains, "the cozy, casual chums of TV are all as relaxed as cooked spaghetti, but most of what you see is the result of arduous, careful preparation...
...boss, trading hats with Global Warrior Everest, takes over as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. "Terrible" Tunner, impatient, coldly efficient, has made his biggest mark as a top transport troubleshooter. West Pointer Tunner headed up the wartime Air Transport Command's ferrying division, later brilliantly steered the arduous Burma-China supply shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first all-round command, broadened his background to make...
...Titus, Arthur Loeb lives nobly up to an arduous role. Especially after Titus begins to be crushed, Loeb has great stature and feeling. At one point, thunder-struck by his two sons' heads, he stands wrapped in his cape, and becomes Rodin's eloquent statue of Balzac...
Career No. 5, the arduous business of being a celebrity, devours every minute of Bernstein's life that escapes the other four. Occasionally fortified with Dexamyl, he copes with interviews, conferences, half a dozen different agents, the management of his income (an estimated $100,000 last year), greenroom receptions and after-concert parties ? at which lie may call for a pot of caviar and talk lucidly for hours...