Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conditions are equally inconvenient for Mauna Kea's astronomers. Oxygen breathing units are everywhere (at least one minute's inhalation is recommended for every 30 minutes of work). Even if they pass strenuous physical examinations, astronomers always operate in pairs so that a helping hand is immediately available. Such precautions are not always enough. On his first night back on the mountain after a month's absence, Astronomer-in-Charge William M. Sinton got the shakes, found his speech blurring and was unable to remember the simplest facts-all because of the shortage of oxygen...
Perplexing Negligence. Hickel got the kind of action he demanded. Despite strenuous opposition by Louisiana politicians and the oil industry's powerful lobby in Washington, a federal grand jury convened in New Orleans last week to investigate Chevron's offshore operations as well as those of several other prominent oil companies. Among other things, Interior officials charged that Chevron had failed to maintain "storm chokes" (required by the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Acts) on 137 of 178 wells in the Gulf area. Chevron was also cited by the Government for 210 violations of offshore drilling requirements...
...BEST things Polonsky does are cold, sharp, and clear, like the quick shots of men and horses falling under Willie's gun. His art is a restrained, strenuous lyricism of situations which have been flattened, made hard and spare. His is emotionally involved in these situations, but in their totality, without sympathy for one character's subjective or idealistic experience. By smashing the conventionally naturalistic, the smoothly progressing, he hopes to bring his audience to an overview which has strong tones of irony and fatalism...
...health buffs protect themselves against middle-age neurosis? Little, who is 47 and confines his exercise to the mild seasonal Scottish sport of curling (a kind of bowling on ice), suggests that they take up painting or rose growing-almost any avocation other than strenuous athletics. "Unless he has something else to fall back on." the psychiatrist warns, "a man playing hockey or football beyond the age of 42 is asking for trouble...