troublous
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Today the Marines still have a fanatic pride in their Corps, accumulated through the years by service in foreign parts, in troublous times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the past several years, a number of county and State societies have elected "executive secretaries" for long tenure, to steer the societies through troublous times.
From Time Magazine Archive
By promoting earnest, dull and difficult Bob Patterson, President Truman made sure of continuity in War Department policy during the troublous demobilization months, the Pearl Harbor inquiry, the coming battle over the armed forces merger.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he said, shaking his head, that they 'had fallen upon troublous times,' and handed each dangerous envelope out with a groan.
From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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