Word: strenuous
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...Strenuous Life. In Springfield, ΙΙΙ., Soda Jerk Herman Gronewald was rushed to the hospital after he wrenched his back whipping cream...
...artistic character study. Producer Jerry Wald would more happily have retained the perennial favorite, for "Dark Passage" comes to the screen as a castrated hybrid with neither excitement nor perceptible depth. Brilliant in spots, Director Delmer Daves weaves a tenuous, confusing story that becomes bearable only through the most strenuous efforts of an excellent supporting cast...
...condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew. Certainly, more conflict lay immediately ahead at U.N. This week, the Assembly's steering committee voted (over strenuous Russian objection) to add George Marshall's new proposals to the working agenda. Without objection from the U.S., the committee agreed that Vishinsky's resolution on "warmongers" should be debated, too. But inevitable conflict did not mean inevitable war. It did apparently mean that the present generation...
...Strenuous Rest. At the fashionable Waldhaus in Sils, Switzerland, Conductor Klemperer was not very communicative about his wrestlings with the Einem score. He showed up in the hotel lobby in bright green corduroy shorts, white sleeveless shirt, his thin white legs encased in striped silk socks. Yes, he felt he needed a rest, he said. It was a strenuous rest: he was playing tennis, going for long walks, working on two compositions of his own, sitting up late alone evenings over a benedictine with mineral water in the hotel bar. Did he like Einem's opera? Klemperer was guarded...
...Burkhart gets his directive for each day's work in an hour of meditation right after breakfast each morning. During this hour he ruminates upon "who I am, why I'm here and where I'm going." Then he begins a round of activity so strenuous that he often breaks off for a half hour's nap. While he was on a recent trip to New York City, the janitor of Manhattan's Riverside Church was amazed to come upon him stretched out, dead to the world, on one of the pews...