Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After such arduous tasks, the King repairs to his equally strenuous hobbies. Not long ago he built a 13-ft. sailboat and sailed it across the Gulf of Siam, a 16-hour crossing. He was accompanied by a small flotilla escort of the Royal Thai Navy, and a motorboat using a new design of jet propulsion that Bhumibol himself had conceived. His current project: a do-it-yourself helicopter (see MODERN LIVING). Last week, as the King and Queen were enjoying the first of the monsoon rains, breaking the most torrid weather in years, news of the discovery...
...away, O'Malley finally capitulated. The pitchers did not get three-year contracts, but they did get $245,000-$130,000 for Koufax, $115,000 for Drysdale. Then they set about getting themselves in shape to play. Drysdale had been working out, but Koufax had done nothing more strenuous all spring than play a round of golf-and it was a good bet that neither would be ready to pitch nine innings before the season was two weeks old. "Our main concern," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston, "is to make sure they don't overtax their arms...
Gonzalez did not have a strenuous first day, defeating Rochester's Steve Horowitz, 15-8, 15-8, 15-7, and Toronto's Steve McCarthy, 3-1. But today Gonzalez will find the going a little rougher against Princeton's Walt Smedley and Burt...
Volunteers whose assignments overseas call for strenuous physical conditioning are given additional training for outdoor living which may include hiking, rock-climbing, swimming and map reading. Proficiency in these activities, however, is not required. While such training was recommended for future community development workers in the mountains of Chile, for example, it would not necessarily be required for someone planning to teach English in an urban setting...
...rarely associates M.I.T. with any activity more strenuous than manipulating a slide rule. But Tech has the best basketball team in its history this year and will give Harvard plenty of trouble when they meet at 8:15 tonight in Rockwell Cage...