Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to International Chess Federation rules, the winner would be the first man to win six games (draws did not count). In the end, Karpov & Co. eked out a narrow six-to-five victory in the arduous 32-game match, fending off a spectacular late comeback by Korchnoi. The games themselves were unimpressive. Karpov stuck to the cautious approach that some commentators have dubbed "the boa constrictor" style; Korchnoi, taking far more risks, repeatedly ran into time trouble by nearly failing to make the required 40 moves in the first 2½ hours of play. "There was not a single...
...highlight of the boulder-strewn, pot bunkered Van Cortland circuit is "Cemetery Hill", an arduous grade just before the three-mile marker. "It's a terrible monster that just kills you on the second mile," Meyer said...
...latest chapter in the long and arduous relationship between Harvard's teaching hospitals and a local service employees union this past summer ended in a rare victory for the union...
Meanwhile, injuries continued to riddle the Crimson eight on the eve of a two-and-a-half-mile encounter with Navy (June 3) at Annapolis. A physically exhausted (from the arduous Yale race practices) Harvard boat, which had best Navy by 12 seconds earlier in the campaign over a 2000-meter (1.3 mile) layout, lost by six ticks to the Middies...
...many of those who stop out, the year (or years) off can prove more arduous than college itself. Stanford Senior Doug Patt, a campus graybeard at 28, has twice interrupted his college career to "see how life is out there in the streets." What he saw, in such jobs as that of supervisor at an Alaska salmon cannery, persuaded him to return for his degree last fall, almost a decade after he entered college. Rice University Senior Charles Lansdell, another 28-year-old, who is graduating this spring, spent three years as a clerk at the First City National Bank...