Word: slogs
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...notorious druglord of Colombia. Fisher says his client won't cop a plea, even though the documents TIME has seen indicate he might be able to implicate major figures in Afghanistan. A former DEA official counsels patience in the quest for justice: "It's a long, hard slog. You've got to give it years. We were starting from the ground up here...
...four years it took him to research and write The Great War?"my subterranean world," he calls the seven-days-a-week slog?Carlyon spent more time with the men he wrote about than with his friends. "Reading their letters, you get to know them," he says, "and in a funny way it makes you very sad when you find out they're going to die." He was especially fond of Philip Schuler, a handsome, talented journalist who went to Gallipoli as a war correspondent, then enlisted in the Army and was sent to France. Writing home from Messines...
...stopping its usual routine. If the Blizzard of 1978 is any indication, Harvard can essentially operate without any overarching guidance or direction. But merely allowing a university to trudge forward under its own power endangers the university’s long-term aims; mere repetition of the daily slog does not constitute a march forward...
They landed on sulfur island--Iwo Jima to the Japanese army that held it--on Feb. 19, 1945. On the fifth day of the death slog (the battle would rage for another five weeks), U.S. troops had commandeered enough of the island to reach the peak of Mount Suribachi. "Put a flag up there," one officer advised, and a few men did. But some bigwig wanted it as a souvenir, so six other men planted a second pole and raised the Stars and Stripes one more time. That was the tableau captured by photographer Joe Rosenthal--the one that told...
...school. Between dinner schedules and hourly church bells, it’s easy to feel shuttled from lunch to lecture hall, seven minutes in between to make a quick call. We maneuver our majors and lever four courses while grinding out papers and working on labs. This tiring slog then makes other restrictions on campus feel all the more burdensome, from no nails in dorm walls to office hours by appointment only.We should be accustomed to this stress and structure by senior year, but it seems several summers of urban independence have only made brick walls and handbooks harder...