Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, the short, , rotund judge, now 78, has dominated Utah legal affairs, terrorizing attorneys and angering government officials. Now, however, a determined posse of federal and state officials have mounted a strenuous effort to rein in the freewheeling Ritter. The U.S. Attorney for Utah, Ramon Child, last month filed an unprecedented petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, demanding Ritter's disqualification from any case involving the Federal Government. Last week Utah Attorney General Robert Hansen filed a similar plea for all cases involving his state. In Washington, the Senate has authorized an admittedly superfluous third...
Sommers has done other dangerous escapes, but is retiring from the business now at the age of 43. "I'm getting a little too old for that strenuous work now," he says wistfully. But he does not regret all the time he has spent in a strait-jacket: "How else could I get paid for doing something exciting?" he asks...
...there is an escape artist who puts Sommers--and most other artists in the field--to shame. While Sommers finds escapes too strenuous at age 43, Harold Denhard of Chicago is a sturdy 81 years old. He still performs escapes--including the strait-jacket--and specializes in getting out of lengths of chain and rope...
...After helping more than 100 TV stations to retool their newscasts, Magid and his staff of 117 have sold their services to nearly 40 newspapers in the past three years, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Daily News. For print clients, the Magid team undertakes strenuous audience polling, runs the results through a computer and issues recommendations-generally for more consumer coverage, zippier graphics and writing style, more local news and self-help features, less national and international news. Says Magid: "It is really tailoring a product to meet a need...
...afflictions: childhood illnesses that left him half deaf and half blind, recurrent episodes of near insanity, a career at Oxford that ended after a year because he could no longer afford the tuition, marriage to a woman 20 years his senior who died a bedridden alcoholic, years of inconceivably strenuous labor on his famous Dictionary, and in old age, loneliness and poverty. But he be longed among those "great experiencing natures," Bate says, whose lives and works illustrate the resilience of the will...