Word: strenuous
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...irreplaceable educational value . . . With any individual, simply to accept his temperament and character as they are, and his impulses as they come, is death to moral progress . . . It is also disastrous to lead [a delinquent] to believe that he is more sinned against than sinning and to imply that strenuous moral effort on his own part is unnecessary. The maxim Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner is poison here...
...describe a four-minute advantage on a hot story, but scoop is a bad word. A worse word is 'game' to refer to our business, as in 'How do you like the newspaper game?' If this is a game it is a very strenuous sport, indeed, and I would not 'play' it for free...
...sharpest blades in 1920 Paris was a young Polish-born painter named Moise Kisling. He wore his hair in a fringe, would duel at the drop of a beret, threw strenuous parties in his shabby studios. "He's the swellest guy in the world," wrote Kiki, queen of the Montparnasse models, in her diary. Kisling returned the compliment by faithfully reproducing her generous curves in his solidly painted canvases. Last week Artist Kisling, now an energetic 60, was having his first Paris show in 15 years. To replace Kiki and his other Montparnasse models, he had called...
Glittering Peaks. Every winter after that, the young professor of Greek climbed the white Sierra, and he grew well known for his strenuous hobby. Soon both the weather bureau and the local power company were asking him to measure the snow that he found on the glittering peaks. The power people wanted to know how much snow water would foam in spring into the rivers and through their turbines...
Touchback. In Bridgeport, Ohio, when parents complained that members of the high-school football squad were undergoing too strenuous training, Coach Al Blat-nik put them to playing drop the handkerchief...