Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exotic rituals, to farms and fairs and shrines, swept him into ceremonials of such splendor as no Westerner before had ever experienced. It was a wonder that a man of 69, with his medical history, could withstand the exhausting torrents of pomp and tumult ("He's got the stamina of a Karachi camel," said one Pakistani); but Ike, who had seen nothing like it in his whole career, was buoyed up by his own delight and astonishment...
Italian from Galway. What Anne Bancroft nightly brings to Annie Sullivan, besides sheer physical stamina, is an extraordinary talent for observation, an ear and an eye for the small, significant detail that transforms mimicry into understanding. So the coarse, curbside intonations of The Bronx were erased with intuitive skill at the flare of a footlight and the rise of a curtain. Seesaw's Gittel spoke with an inflection that convinced thousands of theatergoers that the actress must be Jewish ("I didn't even know what a Jew was until I was grown up," says Anne Bancroft). As Annie...
Unity & Continuity. Because the Commonwealth itself is new, the Queen's role in heading it is new, and is thus a task demanding far more sensitivity and stamina than the easier chores of many another monarch who ruled the Empire. She clearly sees travel as a major method of ruling. But even when she is at home in London and serving as Queen of Great...
...London Times was swamped with letters from outraged bunny lovers. Some of the loudest objectors were fox hunters. In the absence of their preferred prey, ravenous British foxes turned to moles, rats, blackberries and garbage cans. They lost the stamina they used to build up chasing rabbits, no longer led hunters off on the long, steady chases of old. Instead, they developed a tendency to head for the nearest suburb, leaving hunters embarrassedly clattering through backyards and garbage dumps. Another curious side effect: British buzzards, deprived of protein once obtained from rabbit carrion, suffered loss of fertility...
...generation ago, comely Crown Princess Michiko took to a tennis court with Crown Prince Akihito in their first public sports outing since their marriage last April. She was paired with Akihito in a mixed-doubles match with other members of the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club. Michiko displayed grace, stamina-and lace panties quaintly peeping out from under her "Michi-style" tennis suit...