Word: strenuousness
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...strenuous effort to draft Manhattan Banker Robert Lovett, a Republican who held down half a dozen key offices with distinction in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, failed because of his poor health, but Lovett was a prime mover in recommending Rusk and McNamara. Bobby Kennedy was the most reluctant candidate, fearing the public and political wrath over a brother act in the new Administration-but he was finally persuaded, after Jack conferred with him in an upstairs bedroom (to escape the milling crowds belowstairs) for 20 minutes, and again, after another wave of misgivings, at breakfast 36 hours later...
...midst of all this. Soprano Farrell proved only a partial blessing. In the middle range her voice is still gloriously warm, rich and powerful, as moving as any voice heard in opera today. But in the upper registers it was strained and at times shrill. Once past the strenuous milestone of a Met debut, Farrell is now eagerly awaiting La Gioconda, her other Met starring role this season. "Gioconda," she says confidently. "That's a role you can really sink your teeth into...
Pediatricians argue that growing bones may be seriously harmed by strenuous activity, and that children's exercise should be widely varied and lightly disciplined, because their interest span is short. Organized leagues, they complain, do not classify youngsters by physical maturity but by chronological age-a notoriously misleading guide for grouping growing children. "Children are not little men," said one doctor last week. "Cutting down the field and changing the rules doesn't make football a kid's sport...
...Congo's political Hydra still had three heads: Colonel Joseph Mobutu, Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba. But each now seemed to have lost even the vigor for plotting one another's doom. All had their squads of gun-toting guards, but the most strenuous weapon any dared to use was the press conference; in one day harassed reporters covered five. Now and then, one or the other summoned energy for a daring stroke, then subsided quietly. Colonel Mobutu, complaining of fever and frazzled nerves, seemed mainly content to send occasional squads of his troops through the streets...
...Athlete's heart," says Dr. Raab, used to be dreaded because it is abnormally large. Physicians now recognize that the trained athlete's heart beats slower than average (about 60 to the minute); it slows down to normal rate more promptly after strenuous exercise, and it has a relatively long resting period between beats...