Word: strenuousness
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...Vineyard, a strange voice called out to World Bank President Robert S. McNamara that a phone call awaited him in the wheelhouse. As the former Defense Secretary started up the ladder, a young man attacked him and tried to throw him overboard. At 56, McNamara is still a strenuous New Frontier-era skiing and mountain-climbing enthusiast; he easily beat off the younger man, whose agility appeared somewhat addled by wine. The unidentified attacker was then restrained by friends. Why the attack? Apparently McNamara has dismayed the Vineyard's community of nude swimmers by buying a beach where they...
Once changed by the conservative Finance Committee, the bill faced strenuous opposition on the left from the more liberal Senators. It was clear that the Administration would have to be willing to accept a compromise. One promising proposal came from Connecticut Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff. The "Ribicoff-Administration" measure, as the Senator called it, set the guaranteed annual income for a family of four at $2,600 and stipulated that it rise automatically with the cost of living. It also stated that no welfare recipient would be required to take a job that paid below the minimum wage...
Ever since the Clean Air Act was amended and toughened by Congress over their strenuous objections in 1970, automakers have argued loudly that the law's standards for exhaust emissions on '75 and '76 model cars will be all but impossible to meet. For all their efforts, they failed to make their plight quite believable to William D. Ruckelshaus. Earlier this year his Environmental Protection Agency summarily rejected the automakers' application for a delay in the deadline. Last week, in a major change of strategy, General Motors disclosed that its scientists were farther along in meeting...
With the exception of the common mosquito (Culex vulgarly), no warm-weather animal is as relentless as the Late-Summer Athlete (Hospes strenuous). As the calendar winds down to Labor Day, he (or she) coaxes colleagues away from a leisurely meal, hauls them up from blankets in the sun and hammocks in the shade-all in the name of Sport. For the victim, no pest coil or 90-day collar will serve as repellent. No, the only proven method of defense is Summer Gamesmanship...
...chlorine is under control, the weight problem seems relatively minor. Symons foresees the day when zinc chloride batteries will be small enough and powerful enough to push small two-to four-passenger cars-if not at turnpike speeds, at least fast enough and far enough to meet the less strenuous demands of city and suburban driving...