Word: arduousness
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...many of those who stop out, the year (or years) off can prove more arduous than college itself. Stanford Senior Doug Patt, a campus graybeard at 28, has twice interrupted his college career to "see how life is out there in the streets." What he saw, in such jobs as that of supervisor at an Alaska salmon cannery, persuaded him to return for his degree last fall, almost a decade after he entered college. Rice University Senior Charles Lansdell, another 28-year-old, who is graduating this spring, spent three years as a clerk at the First City National Bank...
...small task that Levinson has set for himself. One would therefore expect such a momentous and arduous study to be supported by dozens of researchers using impeccable research methods with hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from big foundations. Instead, Levinson's group consists of about five interviewer/researchers who selected a sample of forty men to interview in depth about their life and work and values and crises. In essence, Levinson chose to write the biographies of 40 men and see if any underlying similarities appeared. This is hardly the kind of base one would feel comfortable with...
After the group disbanded in 1971, Bonoff began writing-a mostly arduous process. "My more emotional side comes out when I write," she says. "All these songs, a lot of them sad songs, were real-not real stories, but about real emotions I didn't even know I was feeling until I wrote the songs." Someone to Lay Down Beside Me was written after watching the afternoon soaps. The lyric took 20 minutes, but usually it all comes a lot harder than that. Says Bonoff: "I'll play the melody over and over, and words will just come...
...give necessary time to work through them and not stick down a thermometer each week and say: What in hell have you done this week? This is true on Panama. I think we are going to get a Panama Canal treaty, but this has been a long, arduous process. You couldn't accelerate it. That takes time. The Middle East is another case. Although it may look like a stalemate at this point, really a great deal of progress has been made in the past year, and we will move forward. SALT-again, a long, arduous process, a tough...
...Frankly, I think they (the opposition) were a little surprised when we came in," said coach Bob Donovan. After completing this week's arduous schedule with an unblemished 7-0 record, though, the Crimson golfers proved they can carry a winning tune...