Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of these strenuous activities were filmed for a TV spectacular that was designed to show the health and vigor of Josip Broz Tito, 83. The demonstration was convincing, up to a point. There are no more rumors in Belgrade these days that the Yugoslav President is suffering from some deadly disease. Gone also are the whispers that he is no longer fully in charge of the multinational Communist country he forged in 1945 and holds together by the force of his personal prestige. Still, awareness of Tito's mortality was heightened in Belgrade by Francisco Franco...
...Britain's Alan Bates played both roles with scapular authority, one fears for Kevin Conway even as one scrutinizes him. But he is up to his hazardous task. As an actor, he is not a flashy water-skier splashing off extraneous effects but a deep-sea diver of strenuous gravity who comes up with the pearl of truth...
...Doing your laundry a lot. (This isn't exactly too strenuous, but waiting around can help even you shed pounds fast...
Guido Guidotti, professor of Biochemistry, who lives in Newton, said he rides his bicycle in to the College whenever the weather is amenable. Guidotti explained his strenuous exercise by saying, "Nobody in the Boston Marathon has ever died of a heart attack," as far as he knows...
Another faculty member whose preferences in exercise tend toward the strenuous is Martin Kilson, professor of Government. Kilson said he runs two miles every day that he can. "I started running for my health two months ago, but now it's a pleasure," he said, adding that running has become "compulsive" and that he "hates" to miss a day because of things like traveling that interrupt his routine...