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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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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Into the water slipped the Queen Elizabeth, and into troublous times.
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He fought for Charles the Bald at Fontenay and was frequently employed in those troublous years between 840 and 843 in the fruitless negotiations among the rival sons of Louis.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin