Word: strenuous
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...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...
...morning after Harvard weathered the lyrical assault of Busta Rhymes and his Flipmode Squad, the No. 5 Radcliffe heavyweight crew fought a more strenuous contest against No. 9 Yale—and the results were not so sweet to the ears of Harvard students...
...real thrust of the question: Do you believe the war was a good idea? This would seem a matter of some interest for Democrats, far more important than whether a war hero or a millworker's son is better positioned to beat George Bush. But punditry is less strenuous, and less dangerous, than clarifying a crucial issue. In this case, it may be the most important question of the campaign: Do you believe the President was right or wrong to go to war? No long answers, please...
...this balance between the sensitive and the shocking, the key ideas of remembering the event and the fallen are both embodied. What resulted from the strenuous jury process, Van Valkenburgh suggests, is the start to the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan...
...this balance between the sensitive and the shocking, the key ideas of remembering the event and the fallen are both embodied. What resulted from the strenuous jury process, Van Valkenburgh suggests, is the start to the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan...