Word: arduousness
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...that devout Muslims are expected to make at least once in their lifetime. Participation has been growing steadily since 1974. Last November's pilgrimage was the biggest in history. Nearly 2 million people converged on the arid Plain of Arafat near Mecca to live in tents and perform the arduous five-to seven-day ritual that has remained unchanged for 14 centuries. More than ever before, the pilgrimage was a spiritual kaleidoscope of races and faces and languages from 70 countries, from the wealthiest of oil sheiks to the poorest of the poor...
When the treaty-signing ceremony was over Monday after noon, the people lingered to talk and to remember, clinging to the special feeling of the day as long as possible. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had helped to start the peace process with his arduous diplomacy after the 1973 war, found himself thinking that the nations had to move ahead. "It is a new world now," he said after the signing. "Whatever the problems, they are in a different context. It is an occasion for great hope...
...treaty. Some 70,000 sang and danced in Tel Aviv's Malkhei Yisrael Square on the night of the treaty signing, and similar festivities took place throughout the country. Still, the mood of the celebrations was more restrained than free spirited as Israelis looked ahead apprehensively to arduous negotiations with the Palestinians about how much autonomy their old enemies should have on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. And, as the Israelis realized, the hard-won peace with Egypt would not deliver them from the high taxes, the steepening inflation and the ever present army reserve requirements...
After months of arduous negotiations, exacerbated by harsh charges and counter-charges, negotiators for both sides finally reached agreement on a contract Saturday. The faculty approved the contract by a 252-17 vote Monday, and the trustees were expected to follow suit the next...
Except for a few, like Robert Flaherty, and the team of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack who went on to make King Kong, most of these film makers toiled in anonymity, under unimaginably arduous conditions, to bring back pictures for which they were ill paid, and which posterity has treated with cavalier indifference. A priceless visual record of our immediate past has been lost, cut up or allowed to disintegrate in ill-tended vaults. Similarly, the stories of the people who made these films have gone untended by film librarians. Until...