Word: arduousness
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Coles's initiation into political activism--exposing exploitation and agitating for governmental reparation as a doctor, a concerned citizen and a social observer--has been an arduous process against the grain of his upbringing. He is quick to pay tribute to the challenge his work involved...
...still is. For their dark, cramped and arduous job, Easington's miners are paid an average of $65 a week. What infuriates them is that this is less than they earned in 1954, when they agreed to shift from a piecework basis of pay to a standard rate on the promise that, in the long run, the change would increase their earnings and lighten their work load. Instead it deprived them of reward for their increased productivity, and their income declined from $17 to $19 a day in 1954 to about $13 today. In relation to other basic tradesmen...
...outset, Wallace is in a much better position to play the spoiler for both parties than he was four years ago. The arduous task of petitioning for inclusion on the ballot is largely behind him. A full-time campaign staff of 30-augmented by hundreds of volunteers-is already at work cranking out newsletters and magazines, planning fund-raising dinners and plotting strategy. Wallace will concentrate on regional television broadcasts instead of the helter-skelter personal campaigning of '68. To smooth his image, he has sought and received advice on television technique from Evangelist Billy Graham...
...year ago last week, the guns fell silent along the Suez Canal as Egypt and Israel announced their acceptance of U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers' plan for a ceasefire. At the time, United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declared: "The road ahead is long, arduous and uncertain, but if only there is a will for peace, all obstacles can be surmounted and peace will be achieved." In the year since, few obstacles have been surmounted, and a formula for peace has yet to be found. But the year-long respite has produced a profound change in the mood...
...late at night, and the drowsy little group of explorers hurries through the darkness. Their rations.are low and the drinking water gone. It has been a long and arduous journey; now the rewards are at hand. The nuclear family is about to start a week of nuclear camping. The camp includes: a swimming pool, a laundromat, a supermarket, a billiard academy, a miniature golf course, and fence-to-fence asphalt and plastic grass...