Word: strenuous
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...story led the paper; the Crimson, for instance, covered in detail every practice of the football team. FDR seemed to realize that the emphasis on athletics could get out of hand: once, trying in an editorial to drum up attendance at a lecture, he wrote, "In these days of strenuous athletics and other somewhat unacademic pursuits a good many people wonder whether the modern young man goes to the university for that mental training which comes primarily from the study of books." Still, it didn't stop him from assigning top priority to "Improvement in Practice...Line Show Fight," "Football...
...into his daily workout, White has soaked through his T shirt, emblazoned XHMP-Xerox Health Management Program. His face is mottled with exertion, his eyes narrowed to the 1,000-yard stare of a man at the limit of endurance. Beta endorphins, chemicals released by the body during sustained strenuous exercise, calm his nerves, suppress his appetite and relieve his pain. Increased blood circulation as a result of the exercise may improve White's heart muscle. Such are the small miracles of activity: insurance factors in a stressful and sedentary life...
...lago wins points on evergy alone. When a reading dies work--his poignant, "the pity of it lago; oh, Iago, the pity of it," for example--the moment is improperly led into, susteained and followed through, so it doesn't reverberate as it must. When Jones does attempt something strenuous, it comes across ludicrous and perfunctory: His fit of epilespy suggests T.V.S. Ginsu chef after accidentally dismembering himself...
...Mornings on Horseback finally lacks the salient characteristic of the Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife...
...Folklore and Mythology major, Luhrmann calls anthropology "the most theoretically interesting field around today." After she passes her first strenuous year of general anthropology training--commonly known as the M. Phil--she will pursue an unstructured three-year program working closely with a specialist of her choice...