Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around whom the drama and action centers is Comrade Commander Natasha, played by the lovely Russian film actress Zoya Fyodorva. Her rough, heavy clothing and high boots fail to hide her lovely charm, which fairly oozes out, if given half a chance. Besides her hospital duties, which are very arduous, she has to manage a group of young nurses who are full of life and still half scared to death...
...bonds. Meanwhile rents, taxes and other operating costs have gone up. This week insurance-company offices crawled with guesses as to when other companies would follow the Met's lead. Some stock companies have already done so. But for the big companies, figuring new premiums is a long, arduous, technical job, and it may be six months before the last rate rise is announced...
After calisthenics and breakfast had been put out of the way and the arduous task of dish washing, the summer soldiers piled into tracks (there were no horses) and hauled the guns out on the range. Then half would be formed into gun crews to do the actual firing, the other half would go up on a hill to an observation post to observe and direct fire...
...full week of arduous working days and brooding nights, even giving up a weekend in his beloved Hyde Park, to work on his draft-amendment message. Never before had he broadcast a message to Congress unless he delivered it in person, but this time he called the major broadcasting chains to the White House, had them record his speech for replaying as soon as his written message had gone to the Capitol...
...Each new member," says Authoress Strauss thriftily, "means another penny a week to be collected on Sunday mornings." But the canvassing is "arduous and disappointing work." When one "innocent canvasser" asked "a pregnant Cockney woman," "Are you for Labor?" she turned on him "scornfully," said: "This ain't no bloody mosquito bite...