Word: arduous
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...attached medical report, signed by the old P.M.'s own medical adviser. Lord Moran, and by Sir Russell Brain, Harley Street neurologist and president of the Royal College of Physicians, was short and unspecific: "The Prime Minister has had no respite for a long time from his very arduous duties, and is in need of a complete rest. We have therefore advised him to abandon his journey to Bermuda and to lighten his duties for at least a month...
...Dulles got down from an Air Force Constellation at Washington airport one evening last week, the first U.S. Secretary of State ever to have visited the vast, strategic region between the Aegean and the Ganges. Dulles and his party, including Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen, had bridged an arduous 20,000 miles in 20 days, listened and talked to the rulers of twelve countries inhabited by nearly half the people of the non-Communist world...
Meanwhile, the counter-counter-revolutionaries hatched a plot to have their cake, eat it too, and pinch a few of Skouras' box-office cookies into the bargain. Each announced, in portentous succession, that after years of arduous research it had developed at last its own wide-screen system-with "stereophonic sound." Paramount came out with Paravision, to be shown on a screen 1.66 times as wide as it is high (as compared with 1.33 to 1 for the traditional screen and 2.66 to 1 for CinemaScope). Metro sedately favored 1.75 to 1, and Universal went...
Unpretentious Jessie Wilson, who did not expect to enjoy the social whirl when she came to Washington, has found her constant round of luncheons, teas and dinners arduous but fascinating. Says she: "Sometimes I feel as though my face will crack." The Wilsons also try to get home early, and generally succeed. Their most notable failure in this respect occurred in February, at a party in honor of Admiral Arthur Radford. At 11 o'clock Jessie Wilson wearily told Mrs. Radford that she wished "somebody would do something" about going home. Confided Mrs. Radford: "Nobody can do anything until...
...Provost's job, including ex officio that of Dean, is an arduous one. Ultimate authority for the College is shared by the Faculty and the Corporation, though the line between them is never quite clear and their responsibilities overlap. In addition, inside and outside the Faculty there are committees to be canvassed, people to be consulted, boards to be placated-so much so that the pie is practically hidden for all the fingers in it. All these groups, true to Harvard's most ancient convention, disagree continually. For thirteen years the Provost, with the President's cooperation and advice...