Word: arduousness
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...white Boeing 707 taxied to a stop at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport, and Alexander Haig stepped wearily out into the glow of television lights. The Secretary of State was nearing the end of an arduous diplomatic shuttle that had taken him some 30,000 miles and was in serious danger of stalling. As he prepared to negotiate yet again, he sounded a familiar theme: "It is clear tonight that the task will not be easy, but what is in play is so important that everyone has to apply all the strength possible to achieve a political accord." What...
...Colonial Church, on the outskirts of Minneapolis, was designed by Architect Richard F. Hammel, 58, of Hammel Green Abrahamson, Inc., a Minneapolis-based firm. "Designing religious buildings is arduous," says Hammel. "It took six years of discussions and hard work with the congregation and its pastor, Dr. Arthur Rouner Jr., to achieve a harmonious understanding of the function and meaning of their church. But it is wonderful work, because something other than dollars is valued. You are designing for the celebration of human life...
...taxpayers who still strive to fill out their Form 1040s accurately and completely, the task has become ever more arduous and exasperating. Congress loaded last year's tax bill with new deduction rules, depreciation formulas and tax-shelter gimmicks and thus added to the confusion that has already made the Internal Revenue Code scarcely more comprehensible than a textbook on quantum mechanics...
...Vietnamese are 'whole' human beings, not 'split' as we are inevitably, such people are likely to give the outsider the impression of great simplicity... It is not simple to be able to love calmly, to trust without ambivalence, to hope without self-mockery to act courageous to perform arduous tasks with unlimited resource of energy." "Trip to Hanoi," Susan Sontag, June-July...
...taken out of the shadows to which it has been removed in fear and shame and from which recesses it can only be perceived of as guilt-ridden, treacherous and murdering and which for the woman who has chosen abortion have become a series of stopping places on an arduous journey toward continued self-doubt...