Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Highly fattening food is now generally and easily available to the vast majority of U.S. youngsters, Garn notes. As calories have become more accessible and irresistible, the chances to work them off in healthy exercise have diminished. "In many of our great cities," he writes, "safe opportunities for strenuous play now scarcely exist . . . As suburbia expands . . . the car pool and the school bus reduce the energy expenditure, and the ranch house no longer provides calorie-expending stairs to climb...
...faith. Protestants will have more difficulty with this stipulation than Catholics, suggests Presbyterian Brown, partly because Protestantism is less dogmatic and partly "because of a longstanding and baleful American tendency to equate the Protestant faith with 'what I find appealing.' " This will mean "some strenuous intramural debate" in Protestantism...
...could "wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes," is much to the point. General Power's answer to the threat-an "airborne alert" that would keep 25% of SAC's B-52s in the air at all times - would be enormously strenuous and costly. It would require more flight and maintenance crews, more spare parts to keep up with wear and tear, more tankers, enormous quantities of fuel, all adding up to $1 billion a year. But without it, SAC will be vulnerable, and the U.S. will be in danger...
...report went on to stress the abundance among foot-soldiers of short, well-balanced men who are heavily muscled and exceptionally agile. It admitted that strenuous training might have had an effect on the men, but maintained that a soldier's basic physique was more important than conditioning...