Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turk is a nice guy to have on our side. He's a realist, he knows where he's going, he's got the guts and stamina to get there. He's a realist, certainly, in his dealings with the U.S. By coming to Turkey's aid in 1947, the Americans raised themselves to the position of second least hated foreign nation (least hated: the Germans). We have made a valuable gesture of recognition now by sponsoring Turkey for NATO membership. The Turks are properly appreciative. But it is a mistake to say that Turkey...
...speaking from the perspective of his 77 years, Elder Statesman Hoover saw no reason for "frustration or despair." Said he: "The fact that we are vigorously washing our dirty linen in the open is a sign that moral stamina still survives in our people . . . We sense the frauds on men's minds and morals. Moral indignation is on the march again in America...
Under austerity and Socialism, Britons have been getting their pep and stamina less & less from good old-fashioned beefsteak, more & more from vitamin pills. Last week it seemed as if even their vitamins were letting them down...
...General Eisenhower will have had the opportunity to determine whether "the people of Europe who love freedom as we do have the will and the stamina to make real defense possible," the Committee said. Thus, it contended, the real question of the moment does not involve the risks feared by backers of former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert A. Taft (R.-Ohio...
...making this concern clear to those who were to become her enemies. One of the friends of the U.S. understood without being told. Commager, in his introduction, repeats a Winston Churchill story: the day of Pearl Harbor, some Britons doubted that the easygoing U.S. had the will and stamina to fight as it would have to fight. Says Churchill: "But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch ... I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful...