Word: strenuous
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...Bushido to the chivalry of King Arthur's Round Table; he served with Tokyo's military garrison. Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 40, more retiring than his older brother, was last week reported giving counsel to the Emperor on government reform. Prince Takahito Mikasa, 30, who likes the strenuous life, once made an eye-filling picture while training as an Army cavalryman at Yatsu Beach near Tokyo...
...After long meditation, cogitation and rumination, I have definitely made up my mind to run for re-election [to a third term]. ... I am ready to wage the most strenuous fight of my life in an effort to defeat the Fair Employment Practices Commission, the anti-poll tax bill, the anti-lynching bill and the $4 billion loan to England...
...amount of strenuous plot trouble-or even a long fall down a flight of steps-seems to jar Gene Tierney's smooth deadpan. Waking or sleeping, in ecstasy or anger, joy or sorrow, her pretty, composed features seem to be asking the single, gamin-&-spinach question...
Saint Theresa of Avila, "the Saint of Ecstasy," divided her existence equally between earthly toil and divine rapture. Her strenuous earthly labors led to her founding of the order of Discalced Carmelites; her ecstatic transports made her _one of the world's great mystic poets. Half genius of the supernatural, half militant nun, Theresa's gifts to posterity have become part of "the inalienable possessions of mankind...
...varsity men the schedule is even more strenuous. Footballers labor six afternoons a week, generally watched by "Jake" Fitch himself, who has never forgotten his own athletic undergraduate days. Not counted in any of this are hours of regular marching and drilling, and the hours of extra duty...