Word: strenuousness
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...schedule so strenuous that it reminded Ike-dogging Columnist Roscoe Drummond that people used to worry about the President's health. "Mr. Eisenhower," wrote Drummond wearily, "is standing this hectic drought trip better than most of the correspondents...
...strenuous efforts were interrupted. On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Knowland was having breakfast in bed when Tribune City Editor Al Reck called with the news of Pearl Harbor. Scrambling out of bed, Knowland sent his breakfast dishes flying in all directions. Six months later he was off to the Army, soon was bound for Europe as a public information and military government officer. It was in the summer of 1945 when Major William Knowland, drinking coffee in an Army cafeteria in Paris, picked up a copy of Stars and Stripes and read that he had been appointed...
...into bright life. Only it is not quite new, since almost to a man the members have been elected from the old council, and it is not much of a vacation, since there is little evidence that the members have found their now suspended obligations to the Council very strenuous...
...point, he recalls, the pupils split into two camps, "The Simple Life Party" and "The Strenuous Life Party." Hopper belonged to the first, Rockwell Kent and George Bellows to the second. While Hopper strove soberly to find himself, Kent and Bellows were boisterously exhibiting themselves. They were headed for quick fame, he for painful obscurity-and the really simple life...
...years and 100,000 miles of traveling, performing and moviemaking on behalf of UNICEF. He paid his own expenses, carried only "a little bag of dried fruit, a little match stick on which to jot down little notes, and a pair of comfortable shoes." Kaye, 43, found it a strenuous but gratifying effort. "The important thing I learned," he says, "is that through the medium of TV . . . if we can help to better understand the problem of the world's children, the world might be well on its way to understanding itself...