Word: strenuous
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...later years Charles Dickens was almost as famous a reader as he was a writer. What he read were his own works, aloud, before huge, rapturous, often hysterical audiences in England, Scotland, Ireland, the U.S. These strenuous performances filled his pockets, ministered to his stage-struck ego and almost certainly shortened his life. His friends, indeed, opposed his 1867 U.S. tour, which proved as taxing as it was triumphant...
...complains of regimentation by "socialists," yet admits that the Social Democratic policy has nationalized only a few industries, is cautious, and has no strenuous opposition...
...singers were in good voice. All of them acted their parts with lively bumptiousness, which was appropriate enough, since Gianni Schicchi is broad farce set to thin musical fare, and it needs all the guffaws it can get. But most of the time, only the strenuous antipasto English of Basso Salvatore Baccaloni in the title role could be clearly understood. The English-speaking singers mumbled through their mother tongue as if their diction could be taken for granted...
...Such strenuous campaigning allows the Maharaja only four hours sleep a night, but enthusiasm and a daily dose of 15 Dexedrine tablets more than make up the loss as he travels from town to town past loudspeakers blaring, "Give your vote to the Defender of the Faith-His Highness the Maharaja...
Last week, as another strenuous holiday season closed, two customs seemed marked for uprooting. Roman Catholic priests and lay organizations denounced the Christmas tree and Santa Claus as "pagan and Anglo-Saxon." The crèche and the Three Kings, they suggested, are more truly Latin. By & large, Mexican fathers, cracking under the strain of two gift days, backed the drive to cast out U.S.-style celebrations. Said one: "I can't afford any more to be Santa and the Three Kings, so my wife and I decided in favor of the Three Kings." That settled, he went downtown...