Word: arduous
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...were as scarce as good shoes in the Continental Army, John Adams, delegate to the Continental Congress, picked up his quill, penned an unusual tribute to one of them. "The Congress have seen such a necessity of an able commander in Canada, as to destine you for that most arduous service . . . We want you at N. York-we want you at Cambridge-we want you in Virginia...
Nehru even encouraged negotiations between the Tibetans and the Red masters of China. Last April a seven-man delegation, headed by Finance Minister Tsepon Shakabpa, made the arduous trip to New Delhi from Lhasa, the remote, lamasery-studded capital of Tibet. They waited five months for the arrival of General Yuan Chung-hsien, the new Chinese Communist Ambassador to India. When he arrived, the Red envoy suggested the Tibetans go on to Peking. It was so arranged. The delegation, like Nehru, had its dreams; Tibetan Minister Shakabpa scornfully brushed off talk of an impending attack on his country...
...daughter Helena was a sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted as the pieces of the True Cross of Christ...
...that the centenarian Fon of Bikom, tribal king in the British Cameroons, should be allowed to keep all his wives. Said Awni Khalidy, delegate from Iraq: "We should leave the man alone. It is enough to handle 100 women at one time. May God give him strength in his arduous task...
...role was made the more arduous by the fact that Thomas could think of nothing but whatever book he happened to be writing at the time, and that his massive projects took years to finish. "I begin to be seriously afraid," wrote Jane, "that his Life of Cromwell is going to have the same strange fate as the child of a certain French marchioness that I once read of, which never could get itself born, tho' carried about in her for 20 years. . . A wit is said to have once asked this poor woman if 'Madame...