Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place far from home. Knocking on doors for 12 and a half hours a day, six days a week is grueling, but it is more of an adventure than anything else. Selling books is not an intellectual endeavor. All it takes to do well is the desire and stamina to keep on going, rejection after rejection. At times, the work is emotionally straining and humbling, but gradually after accruing confidence and skills-the welling process becomes easier and more rewarding. Basically, there is little reason why anyone should not earn a reasonable profit with sufficient effort...
Providence was no longer able to combat Harvard's fast-moving game with its own more aggressive style. "We didn't have the stamina to be as physical as we'd like to be," said Lamariello...
...Those with immediate experience of that talent include London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo, who reported on the meticulous preparations for the latest royal trip. She covered the Queen's second visit to the U.S., in 1957. "Following her," Angelo recalls, "I gained lasting respect for her never-wilt stamina and serenity. Thirteen years later, I reported the first visit of Prince Charles and Princess Anne to Washington. I could see in Charles the same skill in putting the awestruck at ease...
...submitted a list of 105 women from 18 states and nine foreign countries he claims to have wooed and wed over the past 20 years, some of them more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner, 42, a Mesa, Ariz., real estate agent...
...were convinced that they needed a general as much as an artist. They turned to Dan Curtis, 55. Though he had an unimpressive list of credits, including a couple of horror movies and the soap opera Dark Shadows, they felt sure that he had the passion, talent and physical stamina for the job. Wouk was put off by Curtis' record. Only after Paramount sent him two nonhorrific Curtis TV specials did the novelist agree to see him. "He came to my home, but he wasn't wearing the bar mitzvah suit I figured a producer would wear upon...