Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events like this week's rally raise doubtswhether pro-choice supporters still believe itworthwhile to repeat the Herculean efforts of lastApril, when more than 900 undergraduates traveledto Washington, D.C., for the first march...
...they planted blossomed a quarter-century later in a new generation of leadership. As Gorbachev told Henry Kissinger when he visited Moscow earlier this year, "At any rate, things will never be the same again in the Soviet Union." Notes Kissinger: "This would be a modest result for so Herculean a task." Yes, but once again the contradiction is also true: the fact that the Soviet Union has been so deeply altered that it will never again be exactly the same is of monumental historic significance...
Other students have launched preliminary study abroad efforts only to abandon them when the hassles became too great. Those who do end up travelling only succeed after a near-Herculean individual effort. There even seems to be a pervasive myth that study abroad projects cannot count for credit at all. This attitude influences freshmen and sophomores, who do not even explore what could be a rewarding experience...
...there are two Herculean tasks left that Yohe can accomplish that have never been done before...
...some extent too, we tend to think of eccentricity as the prerogative, even the hallmark, of genius. And genius is its own vindication. Who cared that Glenn Gould sang along with the piano while playing Bach, so long as he played so beautifully? Even the Herculean debauches of Babe Ruth did not undermine so much as confirm his status as a legend...