Word: strenuous
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...White House was forced to acknowledge that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved, at least for a while, the use of dogs, nudity, stress positions-that is, torture-against enemy combatants. Indeed, Rumsfeld, who works at a stand-up desk, indicated a desire for at least one more strenuous stress position: "I stand 8-10 hours a day," he scrawled on a memo. "Why is standing limited to 4 hours...
...burned in their own rhetorical fires. Bob Dole used to proclaim himself "the most optimistic man in America." And Clinton was the Reagan of the liberals, always full of bright-faced hope for a new tomorrow. By comparison, Gingrich and his followers made conservatism look snide and angry and strenuous. They learned the phrases but never the genial delivery of the man who carried 49 states in 1984 without breaking a sweat...
...them, a complete game shutout of Dartmouth on May 2, kept Harvard’s season alive—and was voted Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. Hale, a senior from Seattle, played spectacular centerfield defense the entire year, making the most difficult plays appear easy; the most strenuous, merely graceful. His two highlight-reel catches against Brown on April 25—the last of which, a dive on the warning track gravel, inspired Walsh to praise his “fearlessness”—energized the team for the stretch...
During a particularly intense midwinter practice, her squad, worn down by two months of strenuous training, failed across the board to meet the challenge times she had set out for them. But rather than collectively dress down her team, Wriede-Morawski pulled aside a small group and placed the burden of getting the entire team up to par on their shoulders...
...only is the attitude of the American undergraduate different. It also is the loyalty of the American graduate. The Oxford or Cambridge graduate loves his university, but, unlike to graduate of Princeton or Yale, he do not love her in altogether so strenuous a fashion. He does not have to set seriously to work to convince the public that his university is serving the national more effectively than any other university. For admittedly these two do so already. He does not create graduate councils and employ publicity agents, because there is no necessity for such things. (As with the English...