Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arduous Process...
...plywood planks support the braver pedestrians and piles of dirt and rubble spill out into the edges of the street. Seattle's fleet of mountain biking bicycle couriers have a heyday of dodging the construction runoff, but for most downtown traffic, the construction makes getting around that block an arduous task...
Tragedy struck in 1990. A semitrailer slammed into the tour bus Estefan was traveling in, breaking her back. She narrowly escaped paralysis (doctors inserted two 8-inch-long steel rods into her spine), but recovery was arduous. Still, less than a year after the accident, Estefan was back onstage--singing and dancing. Says Jorge Casas, Estefan's longtime bass player and musical director: "That alone should give you an idea of how incredibly driven and hardworking...
...misty look of a trainer who knows he isn't likely to see anything like that again. By the time the Seoul Olympics were on the horizon, competition in women's distance swimming tended to be for second place. In the last 30 or 35 m of a cruelly arduous race, against the best the world could send her, she would surge ahead unbelievably, often swimming the remaining distance without breathing. She was an aerobic marvel whose skinny rib cage could expand a full 6 in.--two or three more than that of other women team members...
...Arduous Labor...