Word: arduous
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...that the students at Radcliffe have ignored or boycotted the sleeping room at Longfellow Hall so insistently, that the Student Council is hard put to it to make the room popular. Girls at Radcliffe apparently, find no difficulty at all in taking classes as they come no matter how arduous the courses may be so they refused to sleep betweenwhiles...
...Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost to Herbert Lehman. In 1950, the Democratic Administration drafted him again to do a job no one thought could be carried off: a Japanese peace treaty. Negotiated practically singlehanded, after an arduous six months of bargaining, the treaty stands as Dulles' and U.S. diplomacy's outstanding postwar achievement...
...month later, on France's Monthlery track, a production-line Jaguar covered 16,851.73 miles in seven days & nights of continuous driving at an average speed of 100.31 m.p.h. Later, another Jaguar set a night-driving speed record of 83.09 m.p.h. at Goodwood, England's twistiest, most arduous track...
Busy with all the varied chores that fall on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Omar Bradley paused long enough to list, in order of toughness, the most arduous jobs of his career: i) official dinners, 2) press conferences, 3) Pentagon duty, 4) combat...
Throughout Atkinson's long, arduous career, he had been threatened with dismissal, but no one took these threats seriously because Cambridge was reforming in earnest and the city's expenditures had to be slashed, but more important Atkinson was backed up by a maority of the "good government" councillors--those endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Assocition...