Word: strenuousness
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...week's end six doctors gravely warned Long that he would risk his life if he undertook any more strenuous activity. Waving them aside. Ole Earl resolutely took off in his DC-3 on a grueling Fourth of July speaking tour of four back-bayou towns, topped off with a "Miss Louisiana" beauty contest in the far northeastern corner of the state. Ole Earl was off and careening on his campaign trail for a fourth round in the Statehouse. The trail's end was not in sight, but Earl Long was set squarely on a tragic collision course...
...effort at global satire proves too strenuous. In spite of a climax as apocalyptic as any since King Kong was shot off the top of the Empire State Building, Author Condon falters as he battles both cold-war antagonists simultaneously. But in his comic set pieces, he is wickedly skillful. The book's most memorable incident reveals the true story of the Senator's battle scar. Stationed in Greenland, far from the smell of gunpowder but also far from any American women, the legislator-to-be seeks out the sealskinned houris of an Eskimo camp. A fight starts...
...means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after 6:45 a.m., the girls may get less strenuous punishment than the boys' fast "jog around the triangle...
...days at the 12,000-acre retreat (owned by Mrs. Herter's family, and called Cheeha-Combahee after two nearby rivers), Herter used to hunt duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge (he once bid and made a grand slam with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower) and reading whodunits, a passion he shares with John Foster Dulles...
Conibear & Success. "Rowing," says Ebright, "is a strenuous sport, though there is no jarring and no contact. It requires persistence and mental courage. Those that stay with it acquire some of that mental courage...