troublous
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Oaxaca, dotted with old Spanish churches and circled by yet older Zapotecan pyramids, was a troublous city.
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The Morning Show, CBS's early-hour rival to NBC's successful Today, started the troublous week with a new star, dapper, 36-year-old Jack Paar, and a new format�fun and games instead of just news and weather.
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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.
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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.
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Her father, King Anna, was called to the East Anglian throne in troublous times.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward