Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Covering the Olympic Games can be almost as strenuous as competing in them, a test of bodily endurance and mental agility. For TIME's 20 correspondents, photographers and assistants responsible for this week's eleven pages of stories from Sarajevo, the qualifying tests meant constantly racing against the clock, as do many athletes: but theirs was the deadline clock...
...latest offensive showed just how stagnant and how strenuous the evenly matched tug of war has become. Last August UNITA forces, reportedly supported by South African air strikes, captured the strategic town of Cangamba in southern Angola. During the following two months, SWAPO guerrillas swarmed through northern Namibia. Early last month Pretoria decided to strike back. In a memorable display of ill-timing, the South Africans chose to suggest terms for a trial disengagement in Angola on the same day that they had, according to Angola, killed dozens of civilians in a bombing attack. Their offer was turned down. Several...
...very strenuous mentally," Jim says. "You have to deal with your body being filled with adrenalin. You have to group all of your mental energy into making the kick, calm yourself and put down the adrenalin. After you do it, you let everything...
...Harding's final illness was undoubtedly brought on by his strenuous exertions on the last few days of his trip, especially his arduous day at Seattle after landing from his Alaskan journey. Indirectly his death at this time may undoubtedly be traced to excessive work. His death, following the severe illness of President Wilson produced by the same cause, has led to many suggestions that the duties of the Presidency be divided so that they should not fall with full heaviness upon...
...body releases natural opiates, called endorphins, which induce the trancelike state that runners in particular achieve after about 40 minutes of strenuous effort. Athletes sometimes become addicted to these opiates and push themselves to the point of injury to get their usual dosage. Generally, though, the effects are benign. William Glasser, a Brentwood, Calif. psychotherapist and author of Positive Addiction, offers the laid-back argument that running "becomes a way to access your own creativity...