Word: arduous
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...crows ("Post luck!") when its prayerful leaps land safely, was also in a subdued mood. War's end found the Post's new star, Richard Tregaskis (Guadalcanal Diary), starting a series of "human, intimate" weekly pieces which promised to follow a B-29 crew "in the long, arduous flight from the plains of Kansas to the bombing run over Japan." His first article got them as far as California...
Ahead lay coastal Tutong, 25 miles away, then the Seria-Miri oilfields, a rich prize 25 miles further. But beetle-browed Lieut. General Sir Leslie Morshead, tactical commander, was not deceived by the easy beginning. Ahead lay rivers, mountains, swamps and lurking Japanese. Predicted Morshead: "A tedious and arduous campaign-the real fighting is yet to come...
...Future. The badly beaten Japs had left Rangoon's fine port unblocked and virtually undamaged. Soon Allied seaborne supplies for China could be transferred there to the rails that run to Lashio, as they were before the Japs took Burma. The slow, arduous truck haul over the Stilwell Road from India to Lashio might soon be merely a secondary supply service...
These-the lucky ones marked for "joyous reunions"-will be: 1) the physically unfit, 2) a handful of 40,000 fathers who have never been overseas but have been in "a long time," and 3) some 1,300,000 troops now overseas who have had "extended and arduous service...
...snow was 3 to 5 ft. deep, and the drifts were deeper. Even on snowshoes, it was an arduous climb. But the three provost officers (military policemen) found what they wanted-a cabin, well up on Mt. McKay, overlooking Lake Superior, some 16 miles southwest of Fort William, Ont. The cabin, screened by a stand of pine and spruce, was obviously new, built of rough-hewn logs. Sergeant Ronald "Slim" Harrison approached cautiously, threw open the door...