Word: strenuousness
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Under the election reform law pushed through Parliament over strenuous left & right delaying tactics, the Demo-Christian coalition can be sure of an ample majority in Parliament (64%) if it can win but 50.1% of the vote next June 7. The Communists hope to make an effective majority impossible by keeping the center's vote below 50.1%; the Monarchists and Fascists hope to draw enough to force De Gasperi to seek their help-in return for concessions to the right-to form a new government...
...Cool (the bands of Jimmy McPartland and Dizzie Gillespie; M-G-M album). Four tunes played in strenuous alternation by Trumpeter McPartland's hot Dixielanders and Gillespie's bopsters. The predictable upshot: the cool school does best with the harmonic complexities of How High the Moon, the Dixielanders with the basic chords of Indiana. But both manage to give the oldtime Muskrat Ramble a fine bounce...
...quite a few years, a goodly number of Professor Grant Fairbanks' colleagues in the field of speech have watched with indulgence and some amusement the earth-shaking experiments of this self-declared wizard. As one of them, I have no strenuous objections if the good professor wants to lock himself in a laboratory and determine, for example, if the burp is a plosive or a fricative or how many times per second the navel vibrates during the sounding of the intermediate "a," but I do cry out in anguish when I learn that Fairbanks is now devising ways...
...fair means of judging the Crimson. Not only were certain key men unable to play, but their incapacity forced Munro to break up his regular defense and midfield combinations and use groups which had never worked together. The team, which normally would have been tired from the strenuous schedule, was fatigued because of the lack of substitutes. Throw in some disappointing goalie work and the team's showing is understandable...
...coloratura style throughout. The men as well as the women are called upon for whirlwind runs, tumbling arpeggios and fluttering trills. Today's singers (except for a few sopranos with eccentric larynxes) consider coloratura about as easy as tightrope walking, and few bother to take the necessary strenuous training...