Word: strenuous
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...After a strenuous love scene with sultry Cinemactress Linda Darnell, hefty Paul Douglas, 43, who had some rib cartilages pulled loose in a cinema football scene a fortnight ago, went to the doctor to have his ribs taped up again...
Vanderbilt has a few double rooms, but most of the men live in singles. Parietal rules are not strenuous (1 a.m. permissions on weekends) and parties become almost as raucous as College ones. In fact, there is far more of a collegiate spirit and air about Vanderbilt than would be expected of a home of sober young medical...
Last week, he announced plans for the N.C.B.'s most strenuous effort to date: it wanted to spend $1,778,000,000 in 15 years to raise coal output 40 million tons, using 80,000 fewer miners. The alternative: continuing decline of Britain's key industry...
...passed over 6,419,700 4-Fs on the theory that they were not physically fit for general military service. This was a waste of valuable manpower, argued Colonel Warner Bowers, chief surgical consultant for the Army, last week. Most 4-Fs could have been used for less strenuous service behind the lines. His recommendation: abolish the 4-F category, classify such men for special limited duty, defer them until they are needed...
...twelve years had been strenuous ones. In 1939 he had given up a top-drawer practice in corporation law for politics. He was tired of law suits, said Cripps, "of taking money from one capitalist to give to another capitalist." As a Socialist he sought a different distribution of wealth. When he gave up his law practice, there were 6,560 Britons (including Cripps) with after-tax incomes above ?6,000 a year. Last week when he returned to private life there were only...