Word: strenuous
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Earl Brown has given his boys several days to recover from the strenuous western trip, holding practices on the first two days of this week. So the game tonight will be the first action for the team since the contest at Detroit on January...
...picture is, in fact, Hollywood's most strenuous effort, to date, to mix a box-office Mickey Finn out of these disparate ingredients: topical tragedy, pulmotored patriotism, slick-paper romance, and anything-for-a-laugh comedy. There are moments when Director McCarey has the sleight of hand it takes. Albert Bassermann makes a small prize package of a fierce, old Polish general. Pudgy Walter Slezak, as the dastardly baron, is as slickly untrustworthy as a bomb in aspic. But Principals Rogers and Grant exude a general impression that they know something has gone very wrong, and that nothing much...
...around in this war, some should be reserved for the handful of correspondents here. [They] have proved they're just as tough as marines-otherwise they couldn't cover this war." Tyree modestly declined an invitation to join the Guadalcanal Press Club. The initiation ceremony was too strenuous: the members take the tenderfoot out and get him shot...
...Professor Hans Kohn's "Living History" corroborates the Sweezy thesis. Dr. Kohn holds that World War II is actually World Revolution I, and that India is only a part of a planetary upheaval. Hitler saw and seized the new forces before his opponents, thereby gaining an initial advantage which strenuous effort alone can overcome. But, according to Hans Kohn, the effort will be wasted unless the United States recognizes and assumes a new responsibility for world peace...
...army. A big man with a square face, whose hats generally looked too small for him, he was known to his men as the "Fat Boy." Actually muscular and fit as a fiddle, he expected his subordinates to keep the same way, would often give an aide a strenuous tour of duty just to get the flesh off him. Mounted on a white charger, Gort was a heroic figure as Commander in Chief of the British Army on the disastrous field of France. He shone as a systematic organizer rather than as a brilliant tactician. When he returned to England...