Word: herculean
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...first thing that seems to have escaped Director John Gielgud is his cast. It may have been too herculean a task to tone down Maggie Smith. But Gielgud ought to have elicited something more from John Standing than a replica of a rubber duck. As for the two who play the marital also-rans, Niki Flacks and Remak Ramsay, they are a tribute to only one known art-taxidermy...
...Cambridge committee has Herculean tasks to accomplish. It has to get the support of at least half, and preferably more, of the 3000 or so University clerical workers in Cambridge, a group that is spread out among hundreds of offices and whose composition is constantly changing. Schroder estimates that a union-forming vote among the clerical workers is still two years away...
Then Brittin decided to qualify for the Boston Marathon, realizing he had to shave a half an hour off his previous time, a herculean feat. So, in pursuit of the lower time, he entered the Virginia Beach Rotary Shamrock Marathon in March...
...description seems Herculean: The position said Tonis, requires "a law enforcement officer who will relate to the local police, and fit into the Harvard community and thinking, as I have tried...
...inner cities, the all too familiar results are dismal. Explains Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has made a study of the "children of poverty": "Many ghetto schoolteachers will tell you, if you interview them directly, that they see little hope for their pupils. Why, then, make a herculean effort? These children will be leaving school anyway, with little future ahead of them. What a contrast to the warmth and hopefulness of the teacher in the middle-class suburb!" Most schools, says Ron Edmonds, director of Harvard's Center for Urban Studies, act on the theory that "incoming social class...