Word: arduous
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...Maryland even the major lacrosse teams can't stand more than two such games a week. I would suggest a less arduous program for next year and I certainly hope in the meanwhile, that one of your boys is not seriously injured. G. Maxwell Armor...
Such peaceful, secluded living has served to heighten the chief quality of Gerassi's paintings: a warm and sunny kind of innocence. But the simplicity actually springs from an arduous process of trial and error-from "failures," as he says...
...Pope's Vicar-General was on hand to give the new Metropolitana his official blessing. Rome's Mayor Rebecchini devoted his most flowery rhetoric to the completion "of this long and arduous undertaking." Even Italy's President Luigi Einaudi turned up to enjoy the first ride. Ensconced on a seat in one of the three streamlined cars that made up the first train, Einaudi was soon joined by a rush of some 1,000 specially invited guests who crammed themselves into the train in the best Times Square rush-hour tradition, while attendants in bright red garrison...
Since then, Kemble added, "Our estimates of the cost have tended to go up as the preparation of the case proceeds. It may be much more arduous than we expected." The money raised so far, he said, may turn out to be only a third of the total cost...
...storm caught the Vice President, a fairly temperate man himself (he drinks an occasional martini or Scotch highball, loathes champagne, and had only five drinks during his arduous electioneering in the fall), by surprise. King, he assured the temperance groups in a form letter, was a World War II Communist fighter, a former FBI agent and a man of distinction. He had resigned from Southern Comfort, moreover, and had never had any financial interest in the company...