Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeking a grant can be an arduous and time-consuming task. Two young Chicago women have now simplified the process by establishing Funding Sources Clearinghouse Inc. (FSC), the nation's first computerized data service that attempts to match the grant seeker with the grant maker...
Fidel Castro is older now, and the euphoria of revolution dims before the ongoing tasks of socialist construction. But the romantic aspects of revolution live on, in Cuba perhaps more than elsewhere. The sense that revolution is joyous as well as arduous will never really die there...
...arduous assignment of dancing all four heroines (La Stella, Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta) went to Cynthia Gregory, 27. Although Gregory emerged only last year as a star of the company, she has already been hailed by Dancer-Choreographer Erik Bruhn as "the greatest American ballerina since Maria Tallchief ." Dancer Gregory brought to Hoffmann an enchanting grace and elan worthy of a Giselle, testifying to her thoroughgoing professionalism. Swedish Dancer Jonas Kage, 22, struggled noticeably as the hero, merely indicating that he was not the only one incapable of getting Hoffmann off the ground...
...except for Hess Yntema's fantastic third in the butterfly, was slightly anticlimactic, coming as it did after a league championship dual meet season and a strong third in the Easterns. Yntema's excellent 1:50.806 in the 200-yd. butterfly was, however, the climax of a long and arduous training program. Although he had been pointing towards the nationals all season long, Yntema's performances throughout the winter were consistently outstanding. Out of the ten times he swam the event (including two times in both the Easterns and the NCAA's) Yntema set new records a phenomenal nine times...
...path to a degree in medicine proved arduous. The second of four sons in a fatherless family, Robert Good had to earn his own way through the Depression by raking leaves, shoveling snow and running a newspaper route. Impressed by Good's ambition and industry, a Minneapolis businessman helped pay his way through medical school at the University of Minnesota...