Word: arduousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Editorial people, as you would guess from the name, do editorials. Also they write other things; in fact, a list of all the different kinds of things these people write would fill the remaining space in this story. Reporting people report. Reporting is difficult and arduous, but not so difficult or arduous as you would be led to expect. Once you get the hang of it, you're elected to the CRIMSON...
...Owen's husband died in 1952, and after that she began to live a dedicated and incredibly arduous life. At times she worked seven days a week, from early in the morning until late at night. She trained her daughters, and she gave skating lessons at places all over Boston, including Harvard's Watson Rink. She got by with three and four hours' sleep a night, and sometimes without three meals...
...crawl out on the ice, only to have another piece break off and dunk him. "We broke through 73 feet that way. Twice I gave up. But life is sweet." Jesuit Llorente has served in various Alaskan missions, including three years north of the Arctic Circle. But his most arduous work began in 1950 when he was assigned to Alakanuk, on a Yukon delta island. Here he found 3,000 Eskimos and fewer than 100 whites-a parish of 4,000 square miles of tundra, which freezes solid in the winter's 17-hour, 35-below-zero nights...
Bach's Magnificat in D, for Tovey, his "most comprehensively representative work," has proved itself an arduous undertaking for almost every choral group. Bach himself conceived the Song of the Virgin as an intricately subtle and profoundly joyous cantata, and he wrote for it instrumental parts that are as demanding as they are various and voice parts that combine a considerable amount of colortura with an unusually high tessitura. Under Elliot Forbe's direction, most of the intricacies were blurred, and the joy appeared in frequent flashes...
...charge that was disproved by Sorensen's notes, Kennedy's handwritten drafts, and the assistance of Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford. Pearson later retracted his charges. Sorensen helped Kennedy plot his unsuccessful try for the vice-presidential nomination in 1956. Only weeks later they embarked on the long, arduous campaign for the presidency. For three years before Jack Kennedy announced his candidacy he and his assistant stumped the country together, taking notes, preparing strategy, and laying the groundwork for the country's most extraordinary political campaign...