Word: arduousness
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...rule the strip: dimly lit dives with names like U.S.A., Las Vegas and Sexy Club, and signs warning that the premises are off-limits to Koreans. Filipinas and Russians in micro miniskirts idle in the doorways, trying to coax G.I.s inside. This is where U.S. soldiers head after an arduous day of drills and training...
...Pervez Musharraf, then 20, is teased for his hearty appetite and preference for a center hair part. ("Has the habit of splitting hairs.") But the slim leather-bound volume is more than a collection of collegiate memories; it's also a testimonial to the camaraderie whipped up during two arduous years of grunt training in the foothills of the Himalayas. Musharraf's classmates concluded his entry: "A guy to be with, especially when...
After 22 months of arduous negotiation, Mitchell was able to force through the Good Friday Agreement, granting bipartisan home rule to Northern Ireland, and pointing the way towards paramilitary weapons decommissioning...
...says that, despite years of experience, the writing process can often be arduous...
...delivered by bus to a bomb-scarred compound outside Kabul. Once Afghanistan's national military academy, the complex was in ruins, strewn with the refuse of war and neglect. Rebuilding the barracks and office blocks would have been challenging enough, but the Americans have taken on a far more arduous task. From the rubble, they are trying to train the nucleus of a new Afghan National Army (ANA)?multiethnic, apolitical, ready and able to protect the nation and its nascent government. And despite a regiment of glaringly apparent obstacles, they need to do it fast. "I'd rather have...