Word: arduous
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Remember the report we ran here not long ago on what TIME's editors are like? Well, turn about is fair play; so we are prepared this week to dissect TIME's editorial researchers-having just submitted all 50 of them to a rather arduous and revealing questionnaire. I can now report that the composite TIME researcher is a neat 5 ft.-6 in., 126-lb., 26-year-old unmarried blue-eyed brownette who is glad to state that she has worked hard enough during her year and nine months on TIME to lose an undisclosed number...
...Please Shut Up!" The off-hour activities were almost as arduous as the business sessions. Bellboys rushed velvet, satin or brocade evening gowns to & from the cleaners (average tip: 10?); elevator operators coped with breathless indecision. There was a barn dance and a moonlight boat ride to Waukegan...
...river. At the Kaifeng gap the two factions worked peaceably within a few miles of each other. In Communist-infested Shantung local leaders promised to mend 400 miles on each river bank and to resettle half a million people now living in the proposed river bed-a painfully arduous job of dismantling and moving 1,400 villages house-by-house. The Nationalists, for their part, agreed to pay coolies in the Communist area $1,000 a day from the Nanking treasury...
Unhappiest man in Rome the day the list came out was Signor Gammarelli, the thin, clear-eyed tailor who has the arduous task of supplying cardinals with all the paraphernalia of a prince of the church. Even in the best of times a cardinal's wardrobe costs about $4,000, from his moire silk skullcap to his red silk socks and red morocco, silver-buckled shoes. Since one complete costume (a cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there...
...Congressmen relish the responsibility of leaving any stone unturned in the quest for U.S. security. Yet there are a few dissenters even in the high command of the Army, Air Forces and Navy (e.g., Admiral Nimitz) who question the effectiveness of a year's peacetime training, however arduous...