Word: strenuousness
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...Rest. Daily Breen drove himself through a strenuous routine of bodybuilding exercises and some three miles of practice in the pool. The stroke Counsilman taught him was a choppy, continuous flailing, with no graceful, resting glides between pulls, not even after turns...
...Adams' frequent failure to react to others' lines somewhat unsatisfactory. When he does react, it is by mugging or with a boogey slouch which gives an unfortunate impression of adolescent youth. Because Adams seems unable to throw himself completely into the part, and in spite of Miss Boyko's strenuous efforts to rush through her lines in order to buoy the play, the pace lags...
...type of "front porch" campaign which President Eisenhower said he would wage, there is plenty of precedent. Calvin Coolidge in 1924 did no strenuous campaigning but easily won election. The President has little need for introducing himself to the voters. Nothing he could say in the campaign could add greatly to what he has already said...
Faced with the ambiguous yet strenuous demands of medical schools, harried premeds are often uncertain about the most propitious undergraduate preparation. Since medical schools urge a broad liberal arts background, and at the same time narrowly inspect grades in science, hopefuls cast about for the easiest way of satisfying these two divergent demands. Some of the more daring concentrate in non-honors in English, but most drift quietly into either Biology or Biochemistry. Both of these allow considerable freedom to take courses in outside fields, yet give the premed the comforting feeling that he can throw most of his energies...
With national politics beginning to heat up, TIME correspondents last week were hitting the campaign trail. Chicago Correspondent Edwin Darby was in Ohio, finishing his report for this week's cover story on Governor Frank Lausche. At the same time, San Francisco Correspondent Charles Mohr ended a strenuous ten days of zigzagging about northern California, covering Candidates Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. Exhausted but exhilarated, Charlie Mohr reported: "I'd rather be covering politics in California than in any other state. Where is there such an embarrassment of riches in presidential possibilities? Besides, California politicians are not only...