Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unswerving Fealty. The Senator's campaign style remained as urbane and dispassionate as ever, even though the primaries were over and he now faces the arduous labor of trying to convert the convention delegates, mostly professional politicians, who are sympathetic or committed to Humphrey's camp. Ironically, McCarthy, as a scholar and a gentleman, could anticipate more sympathy from outright conservatives, even Republicans, who approve of his dignified image...
Clear Statement. In the arduous efforts to end the war, that conversational cameo may not seem earthshaking. But amid the ritual of prepared exchanges, in a situation where the fund of optimism constantly verges on bankruptcy, Thuy's approach to Harriman offered the only glimmer of hope during last week's three-hour and 45-minute session. For by thus addressing his opposite number informally, Thuy may have been hinting that his delegation will soon be willing to talk directly to U.S. negotiators in an atmosphere undistorted by propaganda-as Harriman has been proposing all along-rather than...
Unfortunately, the task of cementing a durable peace in Indochina will be more arduous than deciding that talks per se are worthwhile. There is little reason to believe that the United States and North Vietnam agree on anything besides the current utility of initiating peace talks in the hope that a permanent case-fire can be arranged...
...immediately upon your works." Donelson surrendered. Finally in March 1864, Lincoln himself remembered, and Grant was given charge of all the Northern armies, Moving East to take personal command of the ill-starred Army of the Potomac. Lincoln had found his general, and though the war lasted for another arduous year, the outcome was never again seriously in doubt...
...LYNDON B. JOHNSON, the President, the greatest vote-getter in U.S. history, now in serious trouble because of an arduous war abroad, a racial crisis of alarming proportions at home, and a gyrating economy that seems to be getting out of hand...