Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's basketball team is concerned, the Pennsylvania Quaker squad is an immovable object. Despite the Herculean labors of the Crimson Cagers, they dropped their 11th straight decision to the Quakers, 75-71, last night before 2112 at Briggs Athletic Center...
...constantly building new prisons. I don't think we can." Thigpen's prescription is repeated in every state, by hundreds of prison officials, judges and scholars. "We have got to look at prison space," Thigpen says, "as a scarce commodity to be used sparingly." The alternative to a Herculean (not to say Sisyphean) prison-construction jag, agrees Carlson, "is to do a better job deciding who ought to go to prison, and for how long. We have to be more selective...
Despite White's Herculean efforts, BU finished second to Harvard's 118 points with 95 points. White won the high jump, long jump and 100-meter hurdles, finished second in the 200-meter dash and fifth in the shotput, and ran on the victorious 4 x100-meter and 4x 400-meter relays...
...consume much of Chinabound, shedding light on the personalities and politics of those who communicated what they saw or thought they saw. He chronicles the Harvard Faculty and History department with equal enthusiasm. While he fails to mention the awe his colleagues surely felt toward him and his Herculean creation of East Asian history courses which would eventually multiply and spread. Fairbank exudes an almost boyish excitement when depicting the Harvard Faculty. The descriptions are intentionally amusing it indulgent...
Both Stockman and Baker are among these "nervous nellies" in Reagan's coterie. "For several months, both men have been orchestrating a Herculean campaign...to force the President to cast Reaganomics aside," wrote Human Events, as the date of State-of-the- Union address neared. The magazine feared that Reagan's top advisors would spur the President to compromise his economic plans by jacking up taxes. When Reagan rejected tax increases in his speech to Congress, Human Events congratulated him for resisting the "unremitting pressure" of his OMB director and chief of staff...