Word: arduousness
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...even her family quite understands why Julia Crotta undertook so arduous a vocation. She was born and raised in Glastonbury, Conn. Julia, her family remembers, was a cheerful, fun-loving girl with an aptitude for music. She studied violin and theory at the Yale School of Music, but left to take a four-year liberal arts course at New Haven's Albertus Magnus College for women. "She loved life, dancing, good movies and good clothes," says a brother...
Referring to the resignation, President Pusey said, "It is quite understandable that, in view of his recent illness, Dean Teele should wish to relinquish the arduous and unremitting pressures of the office he as so ably filled for the past seven years." Pusey added "His impending departure from the University gives us a sense of deep loss, yet, we sympathize fully with his decision...
...Monday's editorial, "Live Modern," your excellent comments on smoking and lung cancer were marred by an ill-considered and overly-broad indictment of the AMA. You said that it seemed unlikely that the AMA would "take time off from its arduous lobbying duties to support a cause which, after all, will only save lives." Even though I am one of the most outspoken critics in my class at the medical school of the AMA's persistent and extreme economic short-sightedness, I can not let such a sweeping statement pass unchallenged. The most ardent liberal in the medical profession...
Those who like to take a kind of sardonic pleasure in witnessing the willful perversity of the human race will probably enjoy themselves in the United States during the next few years. It seems unlikely that the American Medical Association will take time off from its arduous lobbying duties to support a cause which, after all, will only save lives. No one expects television companies to devote expensive advertising space to public service pronouncements about smoking and cancer. A nation of health cranks and pill takers will probably go on smoking as before; and the cancer rate will also...
...matchbooks. The champagne, the swimming, the golf and the jet were all provided free, at a cost of more than $100,000, by handsome A. & P. Heir George Huntington Hartford II, 50, a shy, mystical and misty multi-millionaire who is devoting himself to the arduous job of getting poor quick in his search for a satisfying life...