Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freezing wind whistled through the wooded area near Zurich last week. Thick snow covered the ground. Despite the weather, a few dozen hardy Swiss persisted in their strange activity. While jogging one after another, they suddenly stopped, did a series of strenuous push-ups-or energetic deep knee bends or vigorous hops into the air -and then resumed jogging...
...only good news is Michael Caine, who is fast, wry and totally engaging as the rebel Breck. Despite a tendency to get a little out of breath in the strenuous scenes, Caine might even make a worthy successor to Errol Flynn...
Four years and nine months ago, after strenuous efforts by the Kennedy Administration to get him jailed, Teamster Boss James Hoffa walked through the gates of the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., to start serving a 13-year sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud. Last week Jimmy Hoffa walked out, his sentence commuted by order of President Nixon. The Justice Department announcement noted that Hoffa had been a well-behaved prisoner and indicated that Nixon had acted largely for humanitarian reasons: Hoffa's wife Josephine is recovering from a heart attack...
...decides upon a field of concentration which has a language prerequisite in the graduate field must take a foreign language. But if his decision to major in a particular subject is taken in his sophomore or junior year, the time-consuming language course may make his work load exceedingly strenuous, considering the concentration requirements which must also be fulfilled...
...kind of creation. During World War II, the U.S. had done little postwar planning. It fell to the Truman Administration to improvise some semblance of international order. With audacious speed, one major-policy decision followed another; in each, Acheson assumed leadership. Economic and military aid were sent, after a strenuous domestic battle, to Greece and Turkey. The Marshall Plan was formulated to revive the prostrate European economy. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to resist Soviet aggression. When Tito broke with Stalin, Acheson offered him aid. When South Korea was invaded by the North, Acheson urged American military assistance...