troublous
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Stirring the patronage kettle, � Mr. Hoover was beset by many a troublous problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oaxaca, dotted with old Spanish churches and circled by yet older Zapotecan pyramids, was a troublous city.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was so troublous that eventually Chambermen handed the whole question over to the Board for further study, forwent passing any specific resolutions on non-domestic issues.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incompos'd he shakes; and from his sides The troublous insects lashes with his tail, Returning still.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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