Word: slog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Operation Askari," the South Africans reported knocking out 25 Soviet-made tanks, giving chase to two Cuban battalions, and killing 400 enemy troops. Their own casualties were 21 dead, more than in any other campaign since 1975. Said Lieut. Ian Gleeson: "It was an extended operation and a hard slog...
...promoting the negotiation of treaties to end nuclear testing and to ban chemical weapons, and measures to prevent an arms race in outer space. We are also helping to strengthen measures against the spread of nuclear weapons. For countries such as ours, there is no substitute for the hard slog of multilateral negotiations designed to engage the interests and support of the superpowers. We were recently encouraged by a U.N. vote in which this year the U.S. changed its vote, thereby bringing us closer to negotiation of a comprehensive test-ban treaty...
...larger, more interesting kind of snobbery based on knowledge is language snobbery. The tribe of such snobs seems to be increasing, even as they slog through solecisms and wail eloquently that the numbers of those who understand the English language are vanishing like the Mayas or Hittites. Droves of purists can be seen shuddering on every street corner when the word hopefully is misused. Their chairman of the board is NBC-TV's Edwin Newman, their chief executive officer the New York Times's William Safire. One author, the late Jean Stafford, had a sign on her back...
...where the Middle Ages are less modish than in Europe, the book's popularity depends on how much medieval esoterica readers are willing to slog through to reach the heart of the story. For Eco's novel, fluidly translated by William Weaver, is not only an entertaining narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327. It is also a chronicle of the 14th century's religious wars, a history of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements. All of this is recounted in the language of theological disputation, Scholastic discourse and-caveat lector-Latin...
...people will actually read A New Democracy, many will consequently fall into its trap and consider the author an intellect and a scholar. But the "thinking man" he aims to attract will try to slog through it, and, upon doing so, will think twice about accepting Gary Hart