Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strenuous life is prescribed for the boy, and little Carlos responds superbly. At 25, having completed his medical studies and a grand tour of Europe, he is magnificently equipped to preserve his family and to serve his country. With verve and apparent determination he opens a handsome consulting room, sets up a modern experimental laboratory, blocks out a much-needed history of medicine...
Peter Matthiessen is an homme engage who is actually engaged in something more strenuous than wagging his tongue. He is a doer who indefatigably does, and a writer who skillfully writes about what he does. In intervals between the composition of three notable short novels, he has pursued a second profession of anthropology in New Guinea and South America, and has written two fine books (Under the Mountain Wall, The Cloud Forest) about his expeditions there. Now at last the scientist and the artist have collaborated to achieve a large and powerful novel that is simultaneously a tale of violent...
...Harvard freshman football team plays Brown in Providence today, and the contest should prove a not-very-strenuous warmup for the Yale game next week...
...reassuring, but he continued to agonize over the possibility that he might not be fully capable of expressing himself or making decisions. So Ike devised his own "simple, logical test to see whether I was physically and mentally capable of serving as President"; he decided to attend a "presumably strenuous" NATO conference in Paris in December, 1957. "If I felt the results to be less than satisfactory, then I would resign," he recalls. All went well, and he even made a speech...
...Philadelphia, where 4,700 youths employed in nine Youth Corps projects work in the city's parks, housing projects and schools, Mrs. June Moore, district director of the corps, is convinced that the program has brought peace -if not brotherly love-to Philadelphia. "These are strenuous jobs," she says. "These young people are tired when they go home, too tired to be standing on corners all night...