Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide requisite youthful stamina, at least 250,000 of those men must be taken from the 1,185,000 aged 18-26 now deferred as key workers in war industry and agriculture...
...President has bounced back wonderfully from his recent attack of flu. His above-average stamina is his strong point, said Dr. McIntire. He recovers quickly from extra strain, or illness. Only one thing worried Dr. McIntire: the long interruption in the President's peacetime schedule of five swims a week in the White House pool. Dr. McIntire hoped the President would soon resume this routine, also his periodic visits to Warm Springs (his last was in April...
What Price Audacity? The Cherkassy bridgehead was one of the Ukrainian chessboard squares on which the two armies played their complex game of blood and wits. It was a game of thrusts, traps, flanking attacks. It was a game in which the player with more patience and stamina, greater reserves, better supply lines stood the better chance...
...report to the Secretary of War, reaffirmed Pershing's principles. Said the Chief of Staff: "Our generals . . . are selected from men who have measured up to the highest standards of military skill, who have demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of modern methods of warfare, and who possess the physical stamina, moral courage, strength of character, and flexibility of mind necessary to carry the burdens which modern combat conditions impose...
Some of the more rebust members of the class (as evidenced by the recent fitness tests) are beginning to worry about their prowess. Rumor has it that the men who show by their fitness scores of a high degree of endurance and stamina will be seriously considered for C-B billets or destroyers where men have to be able to "take...