Word: strenuousness
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...official Washington last week, there seemed to be secret admiration for Frank Ellis and all his zeal. Even the New Fron tier's boss seemed less annoyed than bewildered. After a recent strenuous, desk-pounding session with Ellis, the President had a plaintive question. "How," he asked, "did we ever carry Louisiana?" The obvious answer: by the same determined tactics that Ellis was using at OCDM...
...King's offspring today hold posts ranging from doormen at the palace to the governorship of Sayaboury province; the governor, a bit of an oddball, recently decreed that every elephant in Sayaboury had to wear a license plate.) In total rejection of his father's strenuous love life, the prince married one woman. Princess Khamphouy, a plump cousin, stayed faithful and sired five children. The old King proved totally uninterested in Prince Savang Vatthana's new ideas about agriculture, science and education. "My people only know how to sing and make love," he said...
...surprise, Jack Kennedy found that the job was not nearly so strenuous as it had first seemed. If the problems weighing on the President were still as heavy as they looked on Inauguration Day, there at least seemed to be far more time to solve them-and the gift of time was like a second burst of energy. "It's unbelievable,'' said a top White House staffer, recalling his days as Kennedy's assistant on Capitol Hill. "We didn't realize how much time we were wasting up there.'' Some veteran Kennedy aides...
...beneath the wig, rice powder and rubber eyelids was Hollywood's Shirley MacLaine, the rowdy, redheaded comedienne (CanCan, The Apartment) whose behavior, both on and off screen, is more gusher than geisha. She downed her sake like a longshoreman and sneezed into the hot towels. But in three strenuous days last week, she became a creditable novice at the famed Gion geisha school. The reason she is pretending to be a geisha is that she has a role in a movie in which she will portray an American actress pretending to be a geisha. And the reason...
...done. The Russians believe Communism will triumph without world war, and so in recent years have come to consider disarmament seriously. We should not have so little confidence in the ability of a free society to exist and flourish beside the Soviet Union as to refuse disarmament the very strenuous efforts it deserves...