Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the time the Legion formally notified me, Oct. 16, that the picture had been given a condemned rating, until it announced, Dec. 8, the change in classification, arduous and painstaking negotiations were in progress every day. The day after I received a letter from Father Masterson, Executive Secretary of the Legion, informing me of the classification, I met with him for an extended discussion, during which I told him that we were prepared to do anything possible to eliminate those features of the film which the Legion found objectionable. From that day on, officials of the Legion and executives...
Meanwhile he makes his headquarters in Morgan Hall with an arduous daily routine punctuated by cross-country telephone conversations and interviews with visiting firemen. He mixes a wicked martini (olive included) evenings 'at home.' Weekends with his wife Both he points his Cadillae toward Osterville on the Cape. There in a twelve-room hideaway (one forthcoming complete with tennis court will overlook the sea) he can unbend briefly. Dean David likes gardening: behind the custom-tailored exterior and million-dollar glad-hand he is fundamentally informal and original-thinking. "He works with stuffed shirts very well indeed," Associate Dean Stanley...
...knotty problem still remains unsolved, but life for San Nicandro's Jews is not without its consolations. They had their great day a year ago when they were officially received into the Jewish community. Wrote Manduzio to the Union of Jewish Communities in Rome: "We have completed our arduous undertaking as far as circumcision is concerned. We hope that after what has happened you will pay us a visit...
These were things to do next in the growing routine of the world diplomacy in which the U.S. found itself. The deeper the U.S. got in it, the more arduous the routines would be. But there was still an overall policy to be made. That policy had to be measured against the background of the nation's adventures in foreign affairs since the end of the war. One fact seemed to have emerged already: seldom in world history had there been such an earnest effort to plant peace and seldom had a policy been based on such a grave...
Between what an Administration official called the "Four Martinis and Let's Have an Agreement" era of Franklin Roosevelt and what Marshall called the "Interminable Discussion of Disagreements" at Moscow lay two years of arduous education. Between those two eras was the San Francisco meeting of U.N., the period when Jimmy Byrnes conducted relations with Russia in the jovial tradition of parish-pump politics in South Carolina, when Byrnes sat back and told all who cared to listen that the great thing was to get the other fellow's point of view, when Byrnes saw the U.S. role...