Word: strenuous
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Opting Out. Tall and owlish, Hughes candidly declares that he has "never been a strenuous anti-Communist" and that his "sympathies have mostly been with democratic socialism." He strenuously advocates nuclear disarmament, wants...
...herculean suit of armor and Cyrano-sized nosepiece for a sally across the Rhine. "Madame," says the general to his wife, "will you please not forget my pajamas." No Dish Twice. But France's President will have very little time for sleep in the course of a strenuous six-day visit to West Germany this week. From Hamburg in the north to Munich in the south, the Germans-at De Gaulle's request-have laid on a man-killing marathon of speeches, parades, banquets and wreath layings to honor the first official visit of a French head...
...major, whose persistent bemusement at the idea that the Italians could be up to anything as strenuous as a war effort sets the tone of the picture, says to his aide (Michael Wilding), "Do you realize, old man, we must be the first Englishmen captured by the Italians...
...Investigators rigged up 39 surgeons with electrodes for continuous electrocardiograph records and a cuff for blood pressure readings, fitted the doctors with masks to monitor their oxygen consumption, and conducted a battery of other tests, both before and after the operations. Though the surgeons may have done nothing more strenuous than cutting and tying small blood vessels, they expended, on the average, as much energy as welders or drill-press operators. At the climax of the operations, their hearts raced to an average of 118 beats per minute, with one surgeon logging...
...simply did not have "the strength and vigor needed to do full justice to the campaign ahead, or to the responsibilities involved in serving another six years in the Senate." He looked tired, wore a hearing aid for the first time in public. That the campaign would be strenuous was obvious-since former Democratic Governor Abe Ribicoff, a great Connecticut vote-getter, is leaving the Kennedy Cabinet to run for the Senate. Bush did beat Ribicoff for the Senate in the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, but private polls by both parties now showed him trailing Ribicoff...