Word: arduousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July, American forces in Southeast Asia numbered 135,000; today they total nearly a quarter of a million. Returning last week from his seventh visit to Saigon since 1962, Defense .Secretary Robert McNamara reported that while the U.S. has "stopped losing the war," it will be a long, arduous struggle. With him he brought the recommendations from field commanders that U.S. forces in South Viet Nam be increased to 480,000 by 1967. If Hanoi responds in kind, say U.S. military planners in Saigon, a commitment of 600,000 Americans may well be necessary...
NUMBAH ONE (from pidgin English) means the best. NUMBAH TEN, until recently, meant the absolute worst. As the war has grown more arduous, NUMBAH TEN THOU' has come to describe a man or a circumstance 1,000 times worse than numbah ten, if possible-and far worse than MICKEY MOUSE, a versatile expression that labels an activity superfluous, unheroic, fouled up, or all three...
Nervous Rub. The entire House of Commons cheered Wilson's news, and Tory Opposition Leader Ted Heath even rose to welcome him "warmly" after his "long and arduous mission." But the euphoria did not last long. Two days later, the British Prime Minister was back in Commons, grey, grim, and rubbing his cheek nervously with the signet ring on his left hand, to report that "it is now clear that there is no prospect of agreement...
...Nevertheless, Dirksen's filibuster, powered by a hard-core coalition of some 38 Republicans and southern Democrats, seemed insurmountable, for the Administration could not possibly muster the two-thirds majority (67 votes) to invoke cloture. So, unable to stop the show and concerned that it might prove too arduous for elderly Senators, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ruled out the seriocomic, all-day-all-night marathons of filibusters past. "The opposition to repeal is such, and the rules of the Senate are such, that a final disposition of 14(b) can be delayed for weeks or months," declared Mansfield. "That...
...Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial inefficiency, the Russians shunted him from camp to camp, finally sent him off on a ramshackle freight train that wandered erratically for 33 days across six countries before setting him down at last in sunny Italy. The journey had its bits of humor: Captain Egorov...