Word: strenuous
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Avery suffered a heart attack in 1949, which forced him to turn from the strenuous drypoint technique to the easier one of cutting in wood. He produced eighteen woodcut images in six years, mostly birds or seascapes almost childlike in their simplicity. Again, in search of energy, Avery strives not for sophistication but for the power of a basic form--a way to demonstrate the vitality of his world. He expresses all the pride and grandeur of a fan-tailed pigeon with nine zig-zagged lines. A dancer caught in mid-turn prepares to leap from the page...
...entourage. A New York Times story in last Sunday's edition indicated that legislators "admit a desire to 'protect Henry' from the scandals of the Nixon administration." The story quoted Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-N.J.) as saying that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did not make a strenuous effort to find out about Kissinger's involvement in setting up wiretaps. The committee did not want to embarrass Kissinger, Case explained...
...driving) from the criminal statutes. Thus drunks are no longer put in jail. Other places, however, must be provided to receive them. These are called Local Alcoholism Reception Centers (or LARC), where the alcoholics are detoxified. They then graduate to "halfway" houses for outpatient treatment. Because LARC makes a strenuous effort to reach alcohol abusers early, the centers can usually help improve the physical condition, earning ability and family situation of their patients...
...minute meeting was attended by Nixon and his former counsel, John Dean. Also present for about 40 minutes was H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's former chief of staff. The conversation was secretly recorded by Nixon and, despite strenuous White House resistance, the tape was acquired by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. After listening to it, a federal grand jury two weeks ago indicted Haldeman for perjury growing out of his Senate Watergate testimony about the conversation. By implication, Nixon also stood accused of having lied to the American people because his version of the conversation closely paralleled Haldeman...
Joey Gallo's career must have been a disappointment to him. Despite the most strenuous criminal efforts, he never did find a place above the salt at the Mafia's endless family banquet. His alternate gambit, as a kind of self-taught existential hero on Manhattan's celebrity circuit, did not amount to much either. And of course he ended up dead of assorted, uncredited gunshot wounds in a clam bar in Little Italy a couple of years back...