Word: strenuous
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...present this "laissez-faire" College is taxing those who want to get a little more sleep. Undergraduates lead as strenuous lives as graduate students; let them all sleep equally late...
...Strenuous Life. Despite the low rates, dime novels were written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia physician, a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a parson's daughter...
...most fabulous of them all was Ned Buntline (Colonel E. Z. C. Judson), who led a life as strenuous as his fiction. He killed his man in a pistol duel in Nashville, Tenn., was mobbed by his victim's friends and saved from lynching when a friend of his cut the rope. He lived to a sinful old age (65), a hulking, white-mustached figure of some 200 lbs., immensely vain (at times sporting 20 medals) and prodigiously philandering (he had six wives in all, two at once in 1871). Ned wrote more words than most men speak...
...rowers are all back in their shells and partaking of another and more strenuous workout, a workout which includes another eight miles of rowing and a time trial, either two or four miles in length. Then comes supper, another hour or two of loitering on the lawn swatting mosquitos, and then bed. And the number of lights on in the various sleeping quarters after ten p.m. can usually be counted on the fingers of one thumb...
...Matter of Survival. Favorite of Woodruff's several homes is Ichauway, a 47,000-acre Georgia plantation. His guests are usually roused before dawn to go hunting, and kept up long beyond midnight playing poker. Woodruff is strenuous company. Recently one of his associates went to a doctor complaining of high blood pressure. Asked the doctor: "What have you been doing?" When the patient answered that he had just spent an hour with Bob Woodruff, the doctor said: "Oh just go home and go to bed. That's all you need." Woodruff rarely relaxes, but likes to refresh...