Word: strenuous
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...Cleveland, just 22 years after she won her first Olympic title, Stella Walsh, 43, piled up 1,738 points in strenuous competition for the U.S. women's pentathlon championship and won that title for the fifth time...
Winding up a strenuous summer at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XII set off a flurry of concern with reports that he had suffered a return of the hiccup attacks that had endangered his life last winter. But last week, the 78-year-old Pontiff allayed anxiety by maintaining a fast-paced work schedule that included two mass audiences, two special audiences and a 15-minute speech, in addition to his regular routine. In an audience with a group of doctors, the Pope said that he was not yet fully recovered, but must keep to his tasks. As he spoke...
...opener was an adaptation of The Royal Family, a 1927 comedy hit by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. A trifle rusty and overdone for 1954 and TV, the play covers the strenuous alarums, excursions, and extravagances of three generations of fiercely theatrical Cavendishes (who bear a neat resemblance to the Barrymores) in the course of resolving the heroine's now-familiar indecision between the stage and a normal marriage...
...time Willie was three, father and son were playing catch. At six, Willie was so anxious to get ahead with his baseball that he could not wait for the old man to come home. Afternoons, on the ball diamond across the street, he played a strenuous and lonely game: he would toss a ball in the air and run it down, or hit out a fungo, then tear around the bases and slide ferociously into home...
...term "athlete's heart" should be abolished, said the A.M.A. Journal, because it suggests conditions that probably do not exist: "Exercise, even when strenuous, will not damage normal hearts." Nevertheless, too-strenuous exercise may injure a heart already weakened from other causes; young athletes should have close medical supervision...