Word: strenuousness
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...Rounding into top form despite the strenuous socializing of the European summer tennis circuit, Cincinnati's Tony Trabert breezed past Sweden's Sven Davidson, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, and won the French singles championship for the second year...
...thrust, which gives it maximum speed at sea level of 610 m.p.h. At 40,000 ft. it can fly for an hour and 20 minutes at 575 m.p.h. This is not quite the performance of modern jet fighters, but.it is close enough to give the manned jets a strenuous workout...
...uproarious memoir Cordelia Drexel Biddle (now Mrs. T. Markoe Robertson) serves up a Philadelphia pepper pot of stories about the Main Line's celebrated Biddies. Most of the book is about her father. Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a punch-and-judo-throwing millionaire who led fully as strenuous a life as his good friend Teddy Roosevelt. As an amateur boxer, the bald, spike-mustached aristocrat fought under the name of "Tim O'Biddle." The great Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur fighters he ever saw. In 1908 he went four roughhouse rounds with...
Even before the flag-raising was finished, a U.S. boxer collapsed-starved for oxygen in the high (7,800 ft.), thin air-and had to be carried off. Next day, when some 2,000 competitors from 22 American republics began the more strenuous exertions of the off-year Olympics, athletes and spectators began to drop in droves...
...demands on all TV thrushes are not quite so strenuous. Arthur Godfrey's hired hands have had to learn to ice-skate and swim, but, mostly, his singers need only look at the floor with humility while Arthur tells viewers what good kids they are. On the George Gobel Show, Peggy King's main nonsinging chore is to rub noses with Funnyman Gobel before he wanders offscreen. Denise Lor's task is more elusive: Garry Moore hired her because he thought she was "somebody the Middle West would like." The Midwest likes...