Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governor resigned more than two months ago, halfway through her second term, saying her illness drained her of the "endurance and stamina" required to face another session of her state's General Assembly...
...good effort today, but almost everyone lost stamina during reading period and exams," Hays said, adding that she plans to train the team through next weekend's meet against Princeton, and then taper them for the contest against Yale on February...
...room to await the final results--the pressure had proved too great to bear. The opponents commiserated watching the decisive battle, a five-game, seesawing, gut-wrenching match involving Harvard's Chip Robie, who had suffered from the flu all week. The Crimson racquetmen wondered whether he had the stamina to go the distance with stubborn Tiger Jason Fish...
...House of Representatives, marrying a school principal, Thomas Grasso, and rearing a daughter and son along the way. In a typically forthright announcement, she said she would yield to Lieutenant Governor William A. O'Neill as of Jan. 1 because she no longer had "the stamina or the endurance" to handle...
...many years later, Zhao can even joke about his experience. Working in the countryside, he says, while pointing at his stomach, rid him of an ulcer and improved his stamina. "I wasn't too unhappy then," he quips, "because you don't use your brain much." The experience brought him closer to Chinese rural life. "Agricultural is hard, back-breaking work," he recalls. "When you pull a handcart of grain mired in mud, it takes a lot of willpower. It gave me a sense of what peasants do." The experience seems to have given Zhao what James C. Thomson...