Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During a strenuous, eight-month campaign tour that covered 35,000 miles and took him to 900 towns, Echeverria, 48, got an eyeful of the hardscrabble conditions under which so many of his countrymen live. So did scores of government officials and businessmen who accompanied him for three-week periods. Many Mexicans wondered why Echeverria even bothered. As the candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), which has only token opposition, he was a shoo-in; in July's elections, he won 86% of the vote. Nevertheless, Echeverria was determined that he and other Mexican leaders should get "reacquainted...
...Center has made strenuous efforts to correct the distorted and biased reporting and criticism of its activities-by articles and pamphlets, by the Annual Reports, by trying last year to convert disruptions into debates, by a student open house this fall, and by a pamphlet of Questions and Answers about the Center, which is available through the House offices and at 6 Divinity...
...Strenuous Responsibility. "Clean" is the adjective Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings constantly invite: clean as a bone, as a desert rock, as a haiku. She refutes the idea that discipline is masculine. O'Keeffe may, in a special sense, be the most aristocratic artist America has yet produced. This quality has nothing to do with a grand manner. It lies in its antithesis: her aloofness and precision, her refusal to make any gesture for the sake of effect. Every work in this show, from the earliest calligraphic wash drawings to the recent ones, like Road Past...
When Luis Echeverría Alvarez won the presidential nomination of Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.) last October, he was as good as elected. The P.R.I, has ruled with only token opposition since it was formed in 1929. Nonetheless, Echeverría, 48, conducted a remarkably strenuous campaign. In the last eight months he visited 900 towns and villages and traveled more than 35,000 miles, most of them in his campaign bus, the Miguel Hidalgo, which he named for the father of Mexican independence. Asked why he was working so hard to win an election that...
...last man, political observers expected Echeverría, a cashier's son who grew up to become a lawyer and political scientist, to win an easy victory this week over his sole opponent, Efrain Gonzáles Morfin of the conservative Partido Acción Nacional (P.A.N.). The strenuous campaign proved beyond doubt that Echeverría would change the style of the Mexican presidency. Whether he also intended to change its policies remained to be seen...