Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Physically, the Carter face looks younger than his 51 years, but it also bears some hard lines from a strenuous rural past. The Carters have been stubbornly toiling in the red soil of Georgia for two centuries, and Jimmy was the first member of his family to finish high school. He moved from Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Tech and then in 1943 to the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving five years on battleships and conventional submarines, he was selected by one of his heroes, Admiral Hyman Rickover, to join the nuclear-submarine program. He was the prelaunch skipper...
...come to school when it rains?" And I was just a small boy, so I answered offhand, "I come by horse-drawn carriage." And Nogi said, "When it rains you must come here on foot wearing an overcoat." So he was advocating a very frugal, strenuous, self-disciplined life. That made a profound impression...
...have never received more strenuous response from citizens before on any issue," Sullivan said. "Six phone calls came in before eight o'clock this morning, and the story went into the paper today...
...noble stands of ponderosa, Jeffrey and sugar pine; Eureka and Madora lakes sparkle in the summer sun, which even in August has not melted the mountain snows. Jamison Creek, running fast and clear through the park, is alive with half-pound rainbow and brook trout. Campers looking for more strenuous recreation backpack into lake-dotted Plumas National Forest, which offers good deer hunting; black bears, cougars, mountain lions and bobcats can also be seen there...
...They find Morehouse's program preposterous. "It's an impossibility to develop total cardiovascular and pulmonary fitness in 30 minutes a week," says Dallas Physician Kenneth Cooper. His "aerobics" program, originally developed for the Air Force, aims at improving heart, lung and circulatory function through strenuous but graded exercises that promote the system's more efficient use of oxygen. The Morehouse book, Cooper complains, "is going to do a disservice to a person who wants to use exercise to practice preventive medicine...