Word: arduousness
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...York City with a smirk and a prepared statement that the National Review's papers had been "composed ex nihilo" (out of nothing). In short, it was all a hoax, which had "sprung full-blown in my mind like Venus from the Cypriot seas." The authors' "most arduous challenge was to emulate bureaucratic prose...
...from prosecution, she told the grand jury that Ellsberg made about 3,000 copies from her machine, working in her offices at night when no employees were there. He paid her $150. Ellsberg even enlisted the help of his two children, Robert, now 14, and Mary, 12, in the arduous copying task. When Ellsberg joined M.I.T. as a senior research associate in 1970, he transported the copied documents to Cambridge with him. It is known that New York Times Reporter Neil Sheehan traveled to Boston in March, 1971, shortly before the Times began working on its series...
Once his administrative framework is established, Bok will begin the arduous task of defining the role of the University under his leadership. First on the agenda is putting the University's academic house in order after two static decades wrought by Pusey's glossy, service-oriented administration...
...Congress was an impediment; its members, by and large, were not properly schooled in the hard-fought, intricate practice of diplomatic affairs, and were more likely to respond to the uninformed concerns of their voters, to the shoddy tug-and-pull of the popular political process, than to the arduous twists and turns of great power relationships. The bureaucracy, too, was an enemy: no imagination, no flair, no speed or adaptability, little grasp of the sacrifices and risks one must incur if one were to maintain a flexible policy. And as for popular opinion, Kissinger's interest...
...after the arduous trek to Aqaba and its swift conquest, the film's Lawrence loses heart in the desert campaign. He sees himself as unfit for military command-not out of military considerations, but because of his failure to live up to his own personal vision. He is part Arab and part English, and only a superman would be able to bridge that cultural gap. Lawrence, with a fear of bloodshed which does not control his erratic sadism, and a masochism which is brought to the surface when he is tortured at the hands of a homosexual Turkish...