Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the other end of the line spoke Florida's Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...
Last week Acting President Li wanted the nest egg back. He needed it, he said, to curb inflation-although a lot more was obviously needed for that Herculean task than the Gimo's reserve. Li also wanted the treasure to pay Nationalist troops along the Yangtze in hard cash, thus boost their morale. To Fenghua went old Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi province, to plead with Chiang for return of the funds...
What redeems these diaries from sheer morbidness is Kafka's herculean determination to find health and purpose in his writing. Even when he thought of suicide, he drove himself to his desk. Writing "is my struggle for self-preservation ... Go on working regardless of everything." He went on working...
Humphrey Bogart and especially Walter Huston have done herculean jobs of acting, but most of the honors belong to Walter's son, John, who wrote the script, and produced and directed the film. "The Treasure" is completely realistic at all times, yet every scene is somehow wonderful and strange...
...Jumbos drove close three times in the first half only to be staved off by the herculean Gold Coast defense. On the last of these three drives the Eliots tried a field goal which missed just by inches...