Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game), and all four sides are playing surfaces. The ball is a hard-rubber affair, somewhat larger than a golf ball; the handle of the racket is longer than that of a tennis racket, but the head is smaller. A crack squash player needs stamina and strong wrists; he must be puma-quick on his feet, and know all the angles by experience...
...Defense Command also wants the Voodoo. Present interceptors can only stay at bomber altitude for seconds, make one pass and come back. The big Voodoos can stay at high altitudes for hours, attacking again and again. Altitude, stamina and a storehouse of weapons have replaced maneuverability as the big asset of an interceptor...
...young soldier he has courage, stamina and ambition. He admits: "I desired the supreme power ... to become my full self before I died." As emperor he proves ruthless and gifted, fighting the imperial wars, defending the Roman peace, reorganizing Britain and the Rhine frontier. Above all, the book shows how the soldier-monarch, despite his successes in holding together the large, unwieldy empire, turns inward and becomes more and more the scholarly stoic, meditating on history, immortality and death. His last words are: "Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...
...they took the last turn, a spotlight focused on the pair and picked up Chataway's final move. His smooth style remained, but there was no sign of the stamina needed for a sprint when the Briton moved out on the track to get racing room. Fifty yards from the tape, he was half a pace back. Twenty-five yards to go, and he was still behind. But the gap was smaller now. By the time they passed the tape, Chris Chataway, the man who always finishes second, was first by a stride. His time...
...With the stamina of six-day bicycle racers, Harvey Du Cros and his sons set out to convert the British Isles, then the Continent, them the U.S. They built new factories in France, Germany, and Canada ; in seven "years the company was reorganized with $24 million capital, and John Dunlop sold his interest...