Word: strenuousness
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Guido Guidotti, professor of Biochemistry, who lives in Newton, said he rides his bicycle in to the College whenever the weather is amenable. Guidotti explained his strenuous exercise by saying, "Nobody in the Boston Marathon has ever died of a heart attack," as far as he knows...
Another faculty member whose preferences in exercise tend toward the strenuous is Martin Kilson, professor of Government. Kilson said he runs two miles every day that he can. "I started running for my health two months ago, but now it's a pleasure," he said, adding that running has become "compulsive" and that he "hates" to miss a day because of things like traveling that interrupt his routine...
Physically, the Carter face looks younger than his 51 years, but it also bears some hard lines from a strenuous rural past. The Carters have been stubbornly toiling in the red soil of Georgia for two centuries, and Jimmy was the first member of his family to finish high school. He moved from Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Tech and then in 1943 to the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving five years on battleships and conventional submarines, he was selected by one of his heroes, Admiral Hyman Rickover, to join the nuclear-submarine program. He was the prelaunch skipper...
...come to school when it rains?" And I was just a small boy, so I answered offhand, "I come by horse-drawn carriage." And Nogi said, "When it rains you must come here on foot wearing an overcoat." So he was advocating a very frugal, strenuous, self-disciplined life. That made a profound impression...
...have never received more strenuous response from citizens before on any issue," Sullivan said. "Six phone calls came in before eight o'clock this morning, and the story went into the paper today...