Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, has defended it successfully ever since. Like a football quarterback, Petrosyan scouted his opponent-poring over charts of Botvinnik's games. Like a boxer, he went into training, working out all winter on skis to build up his stamina, later tapering off to something less strenuous; billiards. He moved to a suburban house far from Moscow's hurlyburly, played Tchaikovsky to soothe his nerves...
...also seems to have been Lowell who decided over the strenuous objections of the defense that the hearings were not to be held in public. Defense counsel was allowed to be present at the examination of most witnesses, but not at those of Judge Thayer and the jury. This was a great handicap to the defense; so much of the case depended on the question of Judge Thayer's prejudice, and so much of the committee's report was based on the jurors' simple statement that they were not prejudiced by the judge's attitude, that defense counsel, not knowing...
Plagued by abnormally high winds throughout their strenuous Spring Vacation training session, both the Heavy and Lightweight crews are settling down now for their last crucial weeks of practice before the races begin later this month...
...principal obstacle to signing such a treaty. Rather, he maintained that the treaty has not been concluded because the Russians do not want to stop testing while the United States has superiority in nuclear weapons. Because the United States is ahead now, Church said that he personally favors strenuous efforts to conclude a treaty quickly...
...being.' Canetti has small patience for those who think man's basic instinct is self-preservation. Man is not a "statue," writes Canetti, "with one hand reaching for food and with the other fending off its enemies. His way of procuring his prey is cunning, bloodthirsty and strenuous. He does not mildly defend himself but attacks his enemies as he senses them in the distance; his weapons of attack are far better developed than his weapons of defense...