Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...muscle in her left leg. The freshman standout was forced to miss her first game "in my life."...Field has been plagued by a nagging heel injury, which has hampered her effectiveness as a goal scorer. Because it limits her mobility, she has been unable to build up her stamina enough and tires easily. Yesterday she sat out the first half, but came on for Hart midway through the second... The Crimson entertains Cornell in its Ivy home opener Saturday at 11 a.m. at Soldiers Field. The squad sports an 0-1 league mark after last Saturday's loss...
...popular conception of Bowie's parabolic musical career, even on the part of sympathetic critics, has been tinged with some of this Victorian opprobrium: Bowie the musical chameleon, the masquer, just doesn't seem to have the stamina to stick to one style and wring out its musical worth, but must nomadically migrate to a new brand of music and a new "persona" on each album to amuse his audience. This kind of analysis, aside from its off-hand assumption that a popular musician always changes for commercial and not for evolutionary reasons, also treats with bland ignorance the musical...
...never had a stamina problem; he actually seems to get stronger in the later rounds. In the "Thrilla in Manilla" against Joe Frazier, he took a terrible beating in the middle rounds, only to pull himself together and score a 14th round TKO. Against Shavers, too, he entered the last third of the fight behind in the scoring and "went down to the well," as he says, for that extra reserve...
Bryant was hospitalized last spring with fluid in his lungs. He has since given up chain-smoking unfiltered cigarettes and has begun swimming daily to build his stamina. Says one friend: "He'll never admit it, but he wants those records so bad he can taste it. He's got himself into the best shape he has been in for years because he has to have good health if he is going to win football games...
...that contact. This is, of course, self-indulgence led to an often abrading extreme. But on the other hand, self-indulgence, coupled with with, passion, and intelligence, has always been the touchstone of the successful essayist. "Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and stamina to write essays" advised E.B. White. Didion's collected pieces in The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem frankly do not purport to be objective social history, and we would be missing the point to regard them as such. Rather, we read these meditations upon Bogota and Malibu, John Wayne...