Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would like to ensure that they do not come to naught. In his new book, The Blood of Abraham, to be published next week by Houghton Mifflin, Carter traces the history of Middle East conflicts from biblical times and implores the Reagan Administration to make a more strenuous effort to resolve them...
...Despite strenuous morning heats, Harvard and Radcliffe rowers returned to the crgy several hours and strokes later, to pull out impressive times in the open and lightweight men's and women's finals...
...gopak is a strenuous national dance, performed in a squatting position, with the men rapidly kicking one leg out and then the other, all the time moving around a large circle. Podgorny looked at Khrushchev in amazement. He was in his 60s. Khrushchev egged him on. Podgorny realized his leader was not joking. With obvious reluctance, he stood up and awkwardly bobbed up and down a few times. Khrushchev clapped loudly and praised Podgorny. "Well done!" he said. "You are in the right place there in Kiev...
...gray and misty morning late last week, Pope John Paul II arrived at a $ Rome airport in a Mercedes-Benz limousine, quietly bade farewell to Vatican aides and boarded an Alitalia DC-10. Once again the Pope was airborne, setting forth this time on a strenuous twelve-day "pilgrimage of hope" to Latin America. Arriving at Caracas' Simon Bolivar Airport under a warm afternoon sun, the Pontiff, his white robe flapping in the soft Caribbean breezes, was greeted by Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi. Waving to the crowd, the Pope traveled in his converted Land Rover Popemobile along a twisting hillside...
...many ways, the nation is psychologically back. It inhabits itself again, more or less comfortably. One of the most encouraging aspects of the current self-confidence is that it signals an acceptance of great changes. "Healthy societies, like individuals, need periods of rest and < consolidation after periods of strenuous activism and crisis," says Jeffrey Alexander, a sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Many of our social critics are selling the American people short with this notion that the upbeat mood is some kind of pseudo-event engineered by Reagan and the money he spent on commercials...