Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Father Crowley won his popularity by ministering to show people and by strenuous relief work for the migrant farm workers who abound around Las Vegas. But what won him fame is the Mass that for the past three years he has been holding at 4:30 a.m. for around 500 show people, croupiers and early-bird tourists of the 24-hour town. Crowley held it each Sunday in the Stardust Hotel, which features the "Lido de Paris 1961 Revue," with 13 bare-breasted girls. Such a broadminded willingness to bring religion to The Strip won him much gratitude: Wilbur Clark...
...opera, has a stage more than a quarter of a mile wide with lighting that can pinpoint one face in the darkness or illuminate an acre of land. The hybrid Longfellow narrative comes out of loudspeakers while the actors pantomime, but even without dialogue, the leading role is so strenuous that fresh Hiawathas are sent in like substitute halfbacks to spell the panting starter. Their hero slays the "wary roebuck," sears the wild West Wind, hunts down "monsters and magicians," wendigoes and kenabeeks. Skillfully J-stroking his canoe back and forth across the great sea water of an old stone...
During recent years. Pennsylvania-born Frank Buchman lived part of the time in a luxurious Shangri-La at Caux, Switzerland, where two former hotels and a cluster of chalets, overlooking the French Alps and Lake Geneva, had become M.R.A.'s international headquarters. Last week, having lately finished a strenuous session with 850 Moral Re-Armers from all over, he was vacationing at the Black Forest resort town of Freudenstadt. There, one night Frank Buchman suffered a heart attack and died...
...such, says Dawson, is not the whole case. Christian culture still has a tenacious vitality, but it must be made available to the minds and hearts of the young. This means that in Western universities and colleges, secular and religious alike, a strenuous effort must be directed to the study of Christian history, Christian theology and Christian tradition...
...official Washington last week, there seemed to be secret admiration for Frank Ellis and all his zeal. Even the New Fron tier's boss seemed less annoyed than bewildered. After a recent strenuous, desk-pounding session with Ellis, the President had a plaintive question. "How," he asked, "did we ever carry Louisiana?" The obvious answer: by the same determined tactics that Ellis was using at OCDM...