Word: arduous
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...spends perhaps less time in the arduous and useful tasks of committee work than any other Senator...
With the coming vacation offering an opportunity for them to brush up on their chips and drives, candidates for the golf team are preparing themselves for an arduous, seven-match season...
...their worst production problems, still had a tough job, but were doing very well at it. Winchester Repeating Arms Co. has been trying to get into Garand production for 17 months, has a contract for 65,000 Garands, last week was edging into real production after 17 months of arduous effort. By next year the Army expects to have enough Garands (400,000) for its expanded force (not all soldiers are riflemen...
...deals, of course, with a husband's attempts to bring his marriage to its logical conclusion, and culminates in his final success after long and arduous tribulations. In "This Thing Called Love" the same theme was handled with wit and if not subtlety, at least a certain adult touch. But in this picture the heavy, sloppy traces of poor direction and casting and even photography can be felt time and again. In addition to this the dialogue is as poor as anything that has come out of Hollywood for quite a while. There are about two actually funny remarks...
Premier Pattullo thought the report "fundamentally wrong." His Government, he said, had attained its present position "only after an arduous struggle up the hill of public economy" and did not want to be pushed down. Since British Columbia spends nearly twice as much per capita as the average provincial Government, this did not make much sense. Even less sense was made by Bible Bill Aberhart, who wanted the Dominion to stay out of provincial affairs altogether but to underwrite Alberta's debt. By this time it was clear to everybody that three politicians had effectively scuttled the reform...