Word: strenuousness
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...announced that the U.S. would continue to adhere to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the 1970s, although the agreements had lapsed. The accords, known as SALT II, were never ratified by , Congress, but the two superpowers have more or less abided by them. Conservatives in Congress made a strenuous attempt to persuade President Reagan to abrogate the agreements on the ground that the Soviets have flagrantly cheated on SALT. In fact, the record of Soviet compliance is more ambiguous than the accusations suggest...
...January, former U.S. Army Private Walter Kempthorne told the Wiesenthal Center that in July 1945, he ran across a red-faced, sweating German in the custody of U.S. Army soldiers at a camp near the German town of Trier. Why, Kempthorne asked, was the man being put through such strenuous exertions? "We're getting him in shape to be hung," replied one of the guards. "This here is Mengele, the bastard that sterilized 3,000 women in Auschwitz...
...third of the Japanese work force have been treated as a species apart. They have been banned by law from working more than two hours of overtime in any day or, with a few exceptions, past 10 at night, and allowed monthly menstrual leave with full pay in certain strenuous jobs. All that changed last week when, after months of debate, the Diet, Japan's parliament, approved a bill providing equal employment opportunity for women...
...also difficult to understand students' strenuous objection to judgment by a disciplinary committee which includes their peers, given the precedents for such bodies at other universities, and the likelihood that students before such a committee would find a more sympathetic consideration of their motivations and interests than they might from one composed entirely of Administration or Faculty members. It is astounding that students would not welcome the opportunity to participate in and have an influence on the decisions of this committee...
...Soviet capital since a similar anniversary in 1965, and included military equipment never seen before in a Moscow parade: squat T-64 tanks, short-range (75 miles) SS-21 missiles and M1976 field guns. Marshal Sergei Sokolov, the Defense Minister, gave the keynote speech. "Capitalist propaganda is making strenuous efforts to falsify history . . . to belittle the role of the U.S.S.R. in the rout of the fascist invaders," he declared. "But the truth cannot be overturned. The whole world knows that it was the Soviet Union that made the decisive contribution. Victory cost us 20 million lives, and we will never...