Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even for John Kennedy, it was an arduous week of activity. It began with word of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's setback in West Germany. Then came the news of Dag Hammarskjold's death. The next day, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko began their cautious, first-round sparring about Berlin. Across the U.S., like malevolent mist, drifted the fallout from the Russian nuclear test shots, which by week's end had reached...
Immediately after Election Day, O'Brien drew an arduous assignment: checking the qualifications, background, weak points and strong suits of nearly 10,000 prospective officials in the new Administration. One afternoon in Palm Beach, going over the lists of names with O'Brien, Kennedy casually notified him of his new job: "By the way, I think this role of congressional liaison is for you." As a graduate of both houses, Kennedy gave O'Brien a warning against the pitfalls of intimacy. "In politics," the President-elect told him, "you don't have friends. You have allies...
During the regular term candidates for the CRIMSON must endure a long and arduous competition to become members of the staff. But in the summer, the infrequency of publication makes it possible for any student in the Summer School to publish his work in the News if he has something to say and can say it well...
...safe system that is not only foolproof but "damnfool-proof." Before an alert plane would start toward its target, the coded string of electronic signals from the command post must be authenticated by two crewmen as well as by the pilot. When that is done, the crew begins the arduous process of arming the bombs. No one crew member can do it alone; for each man who arms the bomb, regulations require that another must be in attendance and watching closely. Knobs must be turned, safety seals broken, keys inserted and turned to close a series of detonator circuits embedded...
With 8:39 remaining in the first half, the last place Crimson was leading 24-15, and mutterings of disbelief ran through the crowd. The beer was already on ice, the girls had made the arduous trek to the hinterlands of New Jersey, and the upstarts from Cambridge were winning...