troublous
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A documentary on the troublous political awakening of northeastern Brazil.
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Among the Republican Senators who lost, ironically, was the man who guided Dwight Eisenhower's campaign during the troublous preconvention months: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
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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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To this last and most troublous question of all, two of the oldest and foxiest independent moviemakers last week gave an answer that may give other independents an idea.
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So he attended the supper-parties sometimes in his purposeless way, and they permitted him to do so freely, despite the maxim that in troublous times half-friends are no friends.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis