Word: herculean
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...routine trip to the supermarket becomes a Homeric journey. And choosing a course can resemble a Herculean feat...
Cummings was not the only example of athletic excellence on the court. Senior co-captain Rosie Stovell, in a Herculean effort, came back from an 8-6 deficit to win her first match...
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON WAS TO be in Los Angeles this week to mark the first anniversary of the Northridge earthquake -- that is, to call attention to the herculean effort made to set things right. Instead he faced natural devastation of a different sort. More than half the state -- the most populous in the Union, the most snakebit in anyone's memory -- is a disaster once again. Ten days of torrents have put thousands of people, north and south, out of their homes, killed 11, ruined crops, closed freeways, played hell...
Retiring majority leader George Mitchell reluctantly abandoned his Herculean efforts to craft a compromise health-care reform bill and pulled the plug on any such legislation for this year. "The insurance industry on the outside and a majority of Republicans on the inside proved to be too much to overcome," said Mitchell. Senate minority leader Bob Dole countered that "democracy in action" defeated what he claimed was a bad, costly and overly bureaucratic set of proposals. President Clinton vowed to revive the fight next year...
...Zhirinovsky's task of uniting the former Soviet republics seems Herculean compared with Hitler's task of subjugating Germany and its people; the Soviet Union failed to keep all the languages, cultures and peoples of Central and East Asia together at gun point. How can Zhirinovsky possibly expect to do so with street brawling, rhetoric, and mass appeal...