Word: strenuousness
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...finicky art of the restorer-a combination of science, skill and luck-has just had a strenuous workout on some early rulers of England...
...Movements, crusades, campaigns, missions have filled the horizon. One sometimes wonders what there has been in public worship for the very large number of persons who were in no position to participate in these strenuous efforts . . . Our Lord's gracious invitation to 'the weary and heavy laden' has not been prominent in American preaching...
...middle-of-the-roader in domestic affairs, Ruiz Cortines is expected to carry forward Alemán's big program of strenuous industrial expansion, but with more decorum, stability, efficiency-and less tolerance of corruption. He is a frequent, admiring visitor to the U.S. "I love to stroll in the streets of New York," he says, "lost among 8,000,000 people. There, one is just an atom." He intends to continue Mexico's policy of close friendship with the big neighbor to the north...
Gnawing on an apple as he talked, Stevenson affably reported that he fell: "more rested than when I arrived, but I haven't had enough sleep." The three-month campaign for the presidency, said Stevenson, was not so strenuous as his ten-month campaign for governor of Illinois in 1948. But, he added, "defeat is not a shot in the arm." As for his and his party's future: "I should hope very much that the Democratic Party will take a position of positive and intelligent opposition. To the extent that I can help make the party...
...fast, strenuous existence of a Yale, be it man or dog, proved too much for Dan VI, who died of a heart attack while vacationing in Florida. He had lasted only one year at the stremous pace...