Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the railroads were prospering, management put up with the extra costs imposed by work rules. But by 1956, beset by shrinking profits, the railroads told the unions that the time had come to start revising the rules. After strenuous negotiations, the two sides agreed to shelve the issue for three years. When the three years expired in 1959, the railroads set out to alter the work rules. Featherbedding, said Daniel P. Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads, is "a handmaiden of the ruinous inflationary spiral. For the good of all America, something drastic must be done about...
...guidance of Dr. Hans Kraus, a Vienna-trained New York physician who thinks that much back trouble is related to muscular weakness.* On his recent trip to Europe, Kennedy noted how greatly his back had improved in the course of those two years. He endured the jostling and the strenuous pace without noticing any pains, and upon his return he exultantly told friends that his back was no longer troubling him. With Dr. Kraus's O.K., he decided to take up golf again. Last week at Hyannis Port, he got out on the course again and swung away...
...issued a strenuous attack on what he called "radical right" elements in the Republican Party. While he avoided calling Barry Goldwater any names, or even naming him, Republican politicians across the nation interpreted the blast as an attempt to slow down the front runner. In a broader view, Rockefeller's move marked the onset of the Republican Party's traditional election-year struggle between its liberal and conservative wings...
...paper in a libel suit, she finally quit. Turning to other adventure she hunted in Asia, fly-fished in Norway, piloted her own plane around Europe. Twice divorced from husbands of her father's choice, Alicia married Copper Fortune Heir Harry Guggenheim over Captain Joe's strenuous objections...
...political reaction to Rocky's recent remarriage has been disastrous. Last week, obviously striving to reverse the tide, Rockefeller and his bride, the former Margaretta ("Happy") Fitler Murphy, undertook a strenuous social schedule. In Albany, the Rockefellers were guests at a luncheon for 44 (top state officials and their wives), a press reception for 84, and a dinner for more than 400 persons. Smiling, attractive and informal, Happy charmed almost everyone. Asked how she felt about her husband's running for President, she frankly wondered whether "one would want the man she loves to have such awesome responsibilities...