Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intra-racism among Blacks does exist, and it is a problem that can be traced back to slave days, when darker-skinned Blacks were forced to work in more strenuous jobs than lighter-skinned Blacks. For years, some Blacks have straightened their hair, lightened their skin, and more recently changed their eye color to blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty. The problem has never been so clearly portrayed on screen as it was in Lee's movie...
...named because the singers are supposed to sound like cawing crows -- in a public place to break down their inhibitions. The curriculum includes memorizing rules of behavior, constant oral testing on classroom work, writing speeches and delivering them in stentorian tones, along with a 25-mile hike and other strenuous physical exercise...
Frisch also concluded that some women athletes, who have lost a significant amount of body weight due to strenuous exercise, experience menstrual dysfunction and may become temporarily infertile...
Bush says he may have been out of the room at the time, and doesn't recall the two Secretaries' strenuous opposition. Had he heard them, Bush has said, "I would have moved to reconsider the whole project." A computer message, which was sent by John Poindexter only a few weeks later, noted the high-level opposition to the arms sales and concluded that the "President and V.P. are solid in taking the position that we have...
...signaled that a hopeful change was in the air. Since then, a stream of recovering alcoholics, among them such celebrities as Elizabeth Taylor, Jason Robards and Liza Minnelli, have stepped forward to tell their stories with bracing candor -- of being caught in the vortex of alcoholism, of taking the strenuous route to sobriety offered in therapy and of regaining their health and self-respect. The long process of recovering from alcohol abuse, which experts insist never ends, suddenly began to get favorable notices...