Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driving) from the criminal statutes. Thus drunks are no longer put in jail. Other places, however, must be provided to receive them. These are called Local Alcoholism Reception Centers (or LARC), where the alcoholics are detoxified. They then graduate to "halfway" houses for outpatient treatment. Because LARC makes a strenuous effort to reach alcohol abusers early, the centers can usually help improve the physical condition, earning ability and family situation of their patients...
...minute meeting was attended by Nixon and his former counsel, John Dean. Also present for about 40 minutes was H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's former chief of staff. The conversation was secretly recorded by Nixon and, despite strenuous White House resistance, the tape was acquired by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. After listening to it, a federal grand jury two weeks ago indicted Haldeman for perjury growing out of his Senate Watergate testimony about the conversation. By implication, Nixon also stood accused of having lied to the American people because his version of the conversation closely paralleled Haldeman...
...days Bass-Baritone Glanton works out in rehearsals at the university's opera workshop. Cast as Don Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Paul finds football and opera similar. "If you eliminate the contact," he said, "the performance and the rehearsals in opera are just as strenuous as football." There is another difference too. Paul does not expect someone from the Met to show up with a contract, although he hopes that someone from the NFL will. "They don't draft in the opera," he noted...
Joey Gallo's career must have been a disappointment to him. Despite the most strenuous criminal efforts, he never did find a place above the salt at the Mafia's endless family banquet. His alternate gambit, as a kind of self-taught existential hero on Manhattan's celebrity circuit, did not amount to much either. And of course he ended up dead of assorted, uncredited gunshot wounds in a clam bar in Little Italy a couple of years back...
...stores owned by the mestizos (people of mixed white and Indian blood). Most of the real activity, however, takes place not in these dusty little buildings, but in the streets themselves. Everyday the Indian peasants, who live higher up in the poorer sections of the city, make the long, strenuous climb down into this commercial sector, where they spread their small supply of goods or produce out in front of them on the uneven stones of the streets. As the dark early morning sky begins to lighten, the quarter is slowly transformed from sleepy urban streets into a carnival-like...