Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signs of Stamina. Ed Martin had come to Philadelphia from the state capital in Harrisburg. During that trip he might have reflected on other signs of Republican stamina-the stone walls and rail fences marking off private property, the small-town centers of muscular little businesses, the web of great railroads, the cities of big and busy mills. True, Pittsburgh, sprawling to the westward, was disorderly, recently strikebound, and Democratic-controlled. But Pittsburgh was neatly fenced off by a gerrymander. In 1943 Ed Martin had signed the gerrymandering bill which had cut down Pittsburgh's Democratic influence...
Against Labor's new rotation shift system, the Tories (outnumbered 394 to 190) could put up nothing but strong black coffee and sheer physical stamina...
...assent. . . . 'Unfaltering! Unflagging!'-these are the epithets that his performance most obviously requires. Other actors are in this or that phase of Lear's progress from worldly to spiritual dominion the peers of Mr. Olivier, but no actor that we can recall has matched the creative stamina which enables Mr. Olivier to rise equal to the demands of every phase...
During his training moves over the huge oval he had shown speed and stamina, but neither boot nor bat could budge him past a spot on the clubhouse turn where a friendly side road beckoned towards his stable area. He had made plain his stand, or so he thought...
...size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet a game; players with stamina, timing, fast footwork and a lightning...