Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Physically, at least, Ford seems able to handle the arduous demands of the presidency. At 61, he weighs 203, only four pounds over his football-playing weight; he stays in shape by two daily 20-minute swims and occasional rounds of golf (scoring in the 90s). He limits lunch to a salad or cottage cheese with ketchup, though he occasionally succumbs to ice cream. No teetotaler, he likes to polish off a hard day's politicking with two or three dry martinis with a pair of olives in each. Ford's colleagues are astounded by his stamina. He has been...
...bargaining was long and arduous. It was conducted with a kind of harrowing frankness that Kissinger said would have been inconceivable at the first Nixon-Brezhnev summit in 1972 and, indeed, would have been judged to violate American intelligence restrictions. For 2½ hours, Nixon and Brezhnev met alone. Then Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko joined them for two more hours...
...Movement since it seized power April 25. Before the week was out, the government had taken full control of the television network, but it was the editor's arrest that touched at the heart of the junta's key problem: how to get out of Africa. That arduous process hit several distinct bumps last week, and there is the jarring prospect of more still to come...
Located halfway between cities that are Texas' traditional rivals - and an arduous $14 cab ride from either- the $700 million airport has been successful only in enraging most of the travelers who use it. They complain bitterly about the outrageous prices and protest that they are "quartered" to death - charged 25? for coffee, local phone calls and even for going from one airline to another. To add indignity to outrage, the quarters often have to be obtained from change machines that return only 95? on the dollar. The only free facilities are drinking fountains, and the water pressure...
...black middle class." Yet too much should not be expected too soon. Because of its origins in slavery, no other ethnic group has started so far behind in America with so many historical liabilities. For blacks the way up is all the steeper, the climb the more arduous. What is encouraging is that they seem to be making a successful ascent. Thomas Pettigrew, a social psychologist at Harvard, believes that the middle class is gaining the "know-how to pass on from generation to generation." As it does, an increasing number of blacks will meet with whites on equal terms...