Word: arduous
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...brink of the grave by the teamwork of 15 doctors and countless corpsmen, Kirn navigated his first unaided steps down a Bethesda corridor. Most Guillain-Barré victims, if they survive the first critical weeks, regain full use of their muscles. But not many have such a long and arduous way to come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block and tackle loaded with weights, and twisting...
...week's comedians, Steve Allen had the most arduous chore. His Tonight (Mon. through Fri., 11:30 p.m., NBC), starts off in New York, at intervals picks up more stations across the nation, finally signs off the air at 1 a.m. E.S.T...
Solemnly holding a copy of the only Bible ever approved by an American Congress,* dapper, dark-haired Lawrence Quincy Mumford, 50, last week swore to perform faithfully one of the most arduous bookkeeping jobs the world has to offer. As the new Librarian of Congress (appointed last April by President Eisenhower), Mumford will preside over the world's largest storehouse of the written word-31,692,000 pieces, including 9,000,000 books, 13 million manuscripts and 412,000 records...
...despite the Bulletin's long and arduous trek away from Soldiers Field and up into the Yard, there are still certain alumni among its subscribers who read only the athletic column, and care only about beating Yale. Happily, however, this group is small, and Bulletin editors find that more and more they can turn away from apologizing for the football team, and devote themselves instead to putting out and improving "the most distinguished alumni magazine" in America
While the placing of a question on a test in a long, often arduous process, the actual marking is an unusually speedy, and easy one. This is made necessary by the large number of exams that must be graded-nearly two-thirds of a million tests a year...