Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Armstrong held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), a feat unmatched by any other fisticuffer, white or black. He renounced his featherweight title, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. Then, last October, after defending his welterweight championship 19 times, the little tornado, whose gameness and stamina made him one of the most extraordinary fighters of all time, lost the last of his crowns to Fritzie Zivic, youngest of Pittsburgh's five "Fighting Zivics...
Those who man our defenses and those behind them who build our defenses must have the stamina and courage which come from an unshakable belief in the manner of life which they are defending. The mighty action which we are calling for cannot be based on a disregard of all things worth fighting...
...Times, is in command of the Army's big reception centre at Fort Dix, N. J., and many another major and colonel has been dropped into an Army administrative job. Of the 14,000 already called, not more than 50 have had to be dropped for lack of stamina, indecision, other incompetence...
...opening the annual Mobilization for Human Needs, appealed to U. S. citizens to give freely to private charity: "Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fibre of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough...
Hitler's constant bombardment of Britain has so far been unsuccessful in weakening the stamina of the English people, who show little hysteria despite their sleepless nights, are surprisingly free from war-time epidemic diseases, and display a growing confidence that they will...