Word: arduousness
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Peter Brooks, as Wake, gives an admirable performance as the perplexed, Peter Sellersish student, although he appears to tire near the end of along, arduous part. Andrew Cohen, as Jean, is a little too robust for a senile poilu, but effective nevertheless. James Pike's underplaying as Samson contrasts nicely with the extravagant gestures and postures of Elizabeth...
...Lazy Dog," a new U.S. anti-personnel bomb that explodes 30 yds. above the ground, spewing tiny fléchettes (steel darts) over a block-square area. Among the dead was a young North Vietnamese lieutenant named Ngo. In his diary, he told of the arduous trip down the long Ho Chi Minh trail that began last November. It ended last week on the barbed wire before Kannack. "My life is very hard," he wrote. "There is not enough to eat, and all the time the planes bomb...
...26th honorary degree, and told 12,000 University of Kentucky students: "If you wish a sheltered and uneventful life, you are living in the wrong generation. No one can promise you calm, or ease, or undisturbed comfort. But we can promise you this. We can promise enormous challenge and arduous struggle, hard labor and great danger. And with them we can promise you triumph over all the enemies...
Ranking high on the Harvard dean's list, despite an arduous major in "history and lit," the boy might have aimed for an academic calling like, say, teaching. Instead, he apparently prefers journalism, spent last summer legging it on the Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel, and now takes over as president of the daily Harvard Crimson, following in the footsteps of such well-known Harvard men as Franklin Delano Roosevelt ('04) and Cleveland Amory ('36). He might even do moderately well in newspapers, since he is Donald E. Graham, 19, eldest son of Katherine Graham, president...
They mingled and they ate and they drank. When things loosened up, the crowd made room for indefatigable Luci Baines, who, with her father looking proudly on, gyrated through a vigorous Watusi, an arduous Frug, to such notable compositions as Monkey Climb and Walk Right...