Word: arduousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the bill reached the Senate floor, the Democratic leadership had to fight desperately to restore the $12 million. They finally eked out a 46-to-45 victory. The Administration resorted to some arduous logrolling, as with "Operation Igloo" involving Alaska Democrat E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, who was craftily withholding his support for rent subsidies. Just as he hoped, Bartlett suddenly received promises that the Administration would arrange loans for Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians living in Alaska's remote Arctic regions-a pet project on which he had hitherto received not a scintilla of White House encouragement. After voting...
...principle of permitting non-military national service is an old and established one. But few persons are willing to go through the long, arduous process necessary to obtain C.O. classification. The result is that most draft-eligibles, especially college students, actively avoid fulfilling any national service requirement. Because there is no practicable alternative to the draft, students unwilling to fight but otherwise eager to serve their country are placed in the position of rejecting the concept of national service altogether. Moreover, those pacifists who are willing to serve in a peace-time army on the probability that they will never...
...However arduous the task of "building a better school and a better nation," said Johnson, Americans have "little reason to be discouraged. Others face tasks so much more difficult than ours." He had in mind, of course, the South Vietnamese officials with whom he had conferred the week before in Honolulu...
...commanded five-figure prices for more than 20 years. Currently, the first comprehensive retrospective of Matisse's work since his death, totaling 345 works in all media, is traveling across the U.S.* The exhibition (see color pages) magnificently highlights his achievement; it also documents what a long, arduous path he followed...
...Squeak. The pressures of domestic and foreign opinion combined to make Johnson's decision to resume bombing one of the most arduous he has had to face in his 26-month presidency. The strain was evident-though with as consummate a showman as Lyndon Johnson it was often difficult to tell to what extent his gloomy, remote bearing was assumed for political effect. He bolted from receptions unwontedly early. After a dinner at which Chief Justice Earl Warren was one of his guests of honor, the President was in such a hurry to return to his deliberations over Viet...