Word: strenuous
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...congratulatory hand to Republican Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois. Arends smiled broadly, said: "Sorry to do this to you, Wilbur." What Arends and his G.O.P. colleagues had done was indeed worth a handshake. With a remarkable rebuke to Ways & Means Chairman Mills, the House, after two days of strenuous debate, voted down a $1.5 billion Democratic proposal for extending unemployment compensation benefits that President Eisenhower had called "a dole." Passed instead, with minor revisions, was the moderate $587 million bill originally proposed by the Eisenhower Administration as a temporary measure...
Newshen Jackson reported that Mamie "entered into the regime rather slowly after viewing the situation and screening the clients' thoroughly." avoided the "more strenuous treatments." She did not let herself be coated with hot wax in the name of beauty treatment. Nevertheless, "all the strain and tension disappeared" at the end of the first week...
...Little, Too Late. Despite Kennan's strenuous objectivity, one inescapable conclusion leaps from the pages of his book-taken rapidly and resolutely, the decision to intervene would have snapped Bolshevik power like a twig. More than a score of separate Russian governments were contesting Lenin's right to rule on Russian soil. The Russian people were famine-ridden and war-weary. Lenin himself relied on endless improvisation. If this was one of history's great lost opportunities, the chief culprit was Wood-row Wilson. Democrat Kennan admits: "[Wilson] drew onto himself, ultimately, the blame for the failure...
...seems that the Committee's recommendations will pass in spirit, but there may be strenuous objection in certain areas," one Faculty member stated. The most critical opinions were voiced against a proposed examination for sophomore Honors candidates, it was also learned. Several members of the Faculty said that such an examination would interfere with the flexibility of tutorial programs...
...music lovers say what they will, is a fine piece of entertainment for people who like to watch Mario Lanza pursue the uneven tenor of his weight. As the man gets fatter, the voice seems to get thinner. This time Tenor Lanza, by dint of strenuous fasting, has wasted himself away to a mere 200 Ibs., and his tone is as plump as a Percheron's rump. As a musician, though, Lanza owes perhaps too much to his early conditioning as a delivery man for a wholesale grocer. No matter how light the aria, he delivers it-grunting...