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Word: onerously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...come, laden with bouquets of red tu lips and yellow daffodils. Forbidden to attend the closed trial, they huddled in the freezing cold, waiting for a chance to express their sympathy with the lat est victim of the government's crack down on dissenters. This time the pris oner was a pretty 30-year-old blonde, Irina Belogorodskaya, whose crime consisted of having left her handbag, containing copies of a protest against the ar rest of a political dissident, in a taxi. The charge: "Preparing and distributing false fabrication defaming the Soviet state and social structure." It took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Flowers for Irina | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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