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Word: onerously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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Usage:

...mortar houses, pitted its scrofulous, winding streets. After the shelling came the British tanks. After the tanks came the Gurkhas from India. They left their guns behind and moved like a scythe through the village with their curved steel kukris drawn. They came out with only one pris oner, a German officer. They had never seen a German officer and wanted to save him for a better view in the daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Story of a Town | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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