Word: effort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discouraged by the distance. The Quad is a long way off, especially on cold December nights, but the Currier House Drama Society's production of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy of comedies makes the trip worth the time and effort...
...Living in Greenough was an adjustment," Gauthier said. "There was no one to wake you up after the alarm clock went off. This year I'm putting a lot more effort into swimming...
Connally, who poured the most effort and money-an estimated $300,000-into the race, staked his chances for victory on a question-and-answer session on the CAMERAS eve of the voting. But the Texan had trouble being heard because of the noise of the Bush band next door. Baggy-eyed and drawn, Connally sat in his suite in a beige chair as the time for balloting approached. Someone mentioned the morning line from Vegas, and Connally quickly wanted to know the odds. "Eleven to ten, Reagan. Take your pick," was the reply. The big man stretched and grinned...
...officials and physicians have been astounded by the apathetic behavior of the Khmer Rouge refugees. Though no trained psychiatrists have examined them, they appear to be suffering the effects of drastic brainwashing, combined with extreme physical hardship and unrelieved fear. In an effort to create a radically new kind of human being, Pol Pot's Communist fanatics turned their subjects into zombie-like creatures whose will and capacity for human feeling seem all but extinguished...
George Bush: He borrows a little from each of his competitors. Much of his thinking was pulled together during briefings by Economists Arthur Burns, Paul McCracken, Herbert Stein and Paul MacAvoy at Bush's summer home in Kennebunkport, Me. He urges an energy effort as metaphorically grand as "the landing on the beaches of Normandy...