Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This organization will pass on to the Army Adjutant General's office the names of those men it feels to be best suited for this arduous work, basing its decisions in each case on a candidate's general experience in outdoor work and any particular qualifications he may have. "Men who have lived and worked in the mountains are preferred; if they ski, so much the better," states the official Ski Patrol bulletin on this subject. However, applicants who can show exceptional fitness as raw material, although without previous outdoor experience, will be considered...
...pleasantest days of soliciting in the history of that arduous activity was made the more enjoyable yesterday by a continual exhibition of shapely and not-so-shapely feminine limbs which made any session at the Revere Beach funhouse look dull by comparison...
...fact that disturbed the U.S.: this was no small-scale attempt to divert attention. The Japanese had disregarded such difficulties as long and arduous supply lines, torrential rains, miasmic fogs, 80-mile gales, scarce anchorages, flinty soil, volcanic mountains, a savage shoreline...
This compact, brilliant critical biography is 1) an excellent life of Walt Whitman, 2) a just, if merciless, evaluation of him as poet, mystic and prophet of democracy, 3) an arduous, provocative sermon on the nature and responsibility of democracy and of art. Unlike most Whitman critics, Author Fausset avoids the extremes of most books about Whitman. He neither damns nor admires Whitman for being a homosexual. He does not claim that Whitman's poetry is as great as Homer's or merely a free verse Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He simply tries to explain what Whitman achieved...
Though we were ragged and weary, so thin that rings won't stay on our fingers, some of us with malaria, dysentery or infected feet, yet everyone was in comparatively good health for so arduous a trip...