Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Timilty has a Herculean chore ahead of him if he is to pick up the votes cast in the primary for state rep Melvin H. King and school committee president David Finnegan...
...despite the positive publicity, it will take nothing short of a Herculean effort by McLaughlin to overcome a pitiful recruiting budget and an inadequate IAB-eyesore. According to well-informed sources, Harvard's total athletic recruiting budget is equal to one-third of the football recruiting budget of another Ivy League school...
...been said, by a malicious Polish wit, that it takes five Southern Californians to unscrew a light bulb, four of whom share the experience. Thus it was on the hills above Malibu Beach, where the experience shared over the past three weeks was a construction crew's herculean effort to remove a 116-ton boulder that had perched over a row of fancy houses lining the Pacific Coast Highway...
...that the United States ought to do something to combat the indigenous forces of anarchy and superstition in foreign lands, and the result is a media urging the U.S. action to save the Shah somehow and a government fumbling to find some way of intervention that would accomplish this Herculean labor...
Teng's New Long March is moving ahead under the ubiquitous slogan STRIVE FOR THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS! The four: industry, agriculture, science and technology, and national defense. The goals that the Peking leadership has set for China are truly herculean-perhaps too much so for a country that is still recovering from the shocks and turmoils of Mao's last years. Thus many Sinologists wonder whether the ambitions of Teng and his pragmatic followers may not eventually prove to be as chimerical as those of Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, when peasants were urged to smelt...