Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slower ball, and certainly it is a game of greater finesse. But certainly in American squash you can run around." Thernstrom, who is often sighted hastening from lectures with two rackets in hand, is a convert from jogging, which he quit because, as he says. "I lack the moral stamina to make myself do it. It's boring...
...degree of personal power exercised by Brezhnev, the new leader will have to build a potent coalition of supporters among the younger men in the party Central Committee who are straining to share power at the top. The process of forging political alliances will take time, skill and stamina...
...Brown's greater stamina and bench depth showed in the final quarter, as it held the Crimson scoreless and nailed down...
...said that students "who have the stamina and commitment" to work in less-lucrative areas will resist the tempting high-salary offers which abound this time of year at Harvard and other top-ranked schools such as Stanford and Yale...
History is, in fact, littered with once bitter feuds that sweetened over time simply because the combatants lacked the will or the stamina to sustain them. For three delightful centuries, the Nicolotti and Castellani families of Venice enjoyed so virulent a relationship that citizens would gather to watch them fight it out on what came to be called the Ponte dei Pugni, the Bridge of Fists. If they were not doing battle there, they were knocking one another about on a drawbridge that the authorities would raise, leaving the two factions glowering at each other impotently from opposite sides...