Word: laboredness
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Shamir tried unconvincingly to put a positive gloss on events. "These matters contain nothing new," he said of the amendments. "We did not alter one iota of the peace initiative." Yet Shamir's labored efforts at spin control could neither disguise the fact that he had sacrificed his fledgling peace...
That theory, however, is much doubted by many physicists who have labored for decades to achieve controlled fusion. Says Robert Conn, director of UCLA's Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research: "Fusion events should produce radiation ((such as neutrons and gamma rays)), and radiation can be measured. If it's...
Culture has not remained the exclusive domain of Moscow intellectuals. On the Arbat pedestrian mall, would-be Pushkins and Pasternaks peddle their autographed poetry for a ruble or more a page. Sunday painters in Izmailovo Park display their labored tributes to the Russian futurists, suprematists and constructivists of the early...
The audience applauds when the curtain comes up on the set, a swank Washington hotel suite, and again for the arrivals of the four leading players, each familiar from a TV series. Alas, those are just about the final occasions for enthusiasm in the labored, preachy and mostly unfunny revival...
Estelle Christy typifies the benefits of academy athletics. Before joining Upward Bound, the 5-ft. 9-in., 130-lb. guard had labored anonymously for a public high school team with a lamentable 4-78 record during four years. Playing for Upward Bound brought High School All-America honors and inquiries...