Word: arduousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that attached to him after Russia's brutal repression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. He largely succeeded. In addition to other forms of relaxation, including somewhat freer speech and more permissive economic planning, Kadar seemed inclined to ease up on the church. After 18 months of complex and arduous negotiations with the Vatican, he recently agreed to replenish Hungary's dwindling supply of Roman Catholic priests and permit freer practice of religion. But liberalization can go only...
...fundamentalist Buddhists stuck to Buddha's narrow, escapist but arduous path and came to be known, to their distaste, as the Hinayana, or "lesser chariot." They prefer the name Theravada, or "doctrine of the elders." The "greater chariot," or Mahayana, branch attempted to enlarge and socialize the Middle Way. Their Buddha became less the example who must be emulated, more the savior who had mystically improved the lot of all mankind. By giving nearly equal weight to concern for others and to withdrawal for the self, Mahayana provided a platform for political engagement as Theravada could...
...cuts would enable consumers in each country to buy the goods of other countries-cars, foods, watches-more cheaply, and would create a sort of "One World" of trade, encouraging both political and economic cooperation around the globe. Now Wyndham White and his staff of 130 experts face the arduous task of comparing and analyzing each country's list of exceptions before real negotiations can begin...
...bantam gut-fighter who had been put on the ticket "because he drives Lyndon Johnson nuts," had come home to roost, and not a day too soon to suit him. "The British have the right idea," he said. Presidential election campaigns have become "too long, too expensive, too arduous and too boring for the public...
...college life, I came to myself within the middle of a vast vault cemented on all sides. The easy way was out through the glass doors, but the Vision of my Section Man's distressed Face led me on out of the depths to attempt that serious and arduous journey by which I might reach the Classroom and Truth. With downcast eyes and a penitent heart at trespassing the forbidden confines of Lamont, only the reassuring presence of my Classmate beside me drew...