Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Duran insisted that, satisfactory or not, it was his last fight, and that from now on the hands of stone will never do anything more strenuous than count the estimated $8 million he earned from this fight (Leonard made about $6 million). Said Duran: "I have been fighting for a long time. I have gotten tired of the sport. I am going to retire." As criticism of his eighth-round walkout grew, however, Duran had second thoughts. "I will not retire and I will seek a revenge fight with Sugar Ray Leonard," he said. Lest any paying customers feel cheated...
Paul Taylor, a political reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer who has followed Ozzie Myers' career, says Democratic leaders may have made less than a strenuous effort to persuade Myers to drop out of the race, because "the others they wanted to beat him with" would have been perceived as invading Myers' "local turf...
There is evidence to support such optimism. Studies have shown that running-indeed, all strenuous exercise-can elevate the blood levels of a form of cholesterol called high-density lipoprotein (HDL). This substance helps remove other, more harmful types of cholesterol from the body and presumably reduces the chances of such materials building up in the arteries. Studying 218 marathoners, joggers and nonrunners, G. Harley Hartung of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that the marathoners had the highest level of HDL. Other factors may be at work; marathoners tend to be relaxed, eat healthful foods, not smoke...
...working hard enough. But then came the crisis in Iran, and the President had to depend on his Vice President for much of the hard slogging of the primary campaigning. Now back in the good graces of Carter's inner circle, Mondale is looking forward eagerly to a strenuous regimen of four-day-a-week campaign swings, making slashing attacks on Ronald Reagan and defending the Carter record. Mondale seems not the least bit uncomfortable in this role, even though it has required him to trim many of his longstanding liberal views, which at one time placed him close...
...nudge the brain along well-worn paths: "That sixth sense that had kept him alive for so long now, scenting danger like some jungle animal. . ." Yet if it is impossible to believe any of this, it is hard not to enjoy it. And reading Solo is less strenuous than watching seagulls. A lot of seagulls...