Word: stamina
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Since the Bok Administration took office, however, the University's handling of the controversy has been marked by a lack of stamina. In sharp contrast to President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey's vocal opposition to the project, Bok has said almost nothing about Black Rock...
While claiming that "there is no way she can beat me," he also delights in ticking off King's ostensible advantages: "A better serve, more quickness, better overhead, backhand and forehand volley, more stamina." He enjoys appearing to be the underdog who cannot lose. Because the format was changed from two sets out of three to three of five-a seeming advantage for the younger player-he claims that the betting odds should drop from 8 to 5 on him to even money. (In Las Vegas, Jimmy the Greek gives Riggs the edge...
...three-year-olds were entered in the race, making it the smallest Belmont field in 30 years. Johnny Campo, trainer of Twice a Prince, talked bravely of a major upset, making the familiar point that Bold Ruler, Secretariat's sire, was not known for producing horses of lasting stamina...
...well as David St. John. His chief characters are Agent Ward, a younger version of Hunt himself (they both went to Brown University), and a casual, thrill-hunting Washington C.P.A., Steve Bentley, who describes the nation's capital as "a great town if you've got the stamina of a Cape buffalo and the wealth of a Punjab prince." Most of the books are predictable concoctions of espionage and sex in exotic settings. Hunt is said to earn $20,000 a year from his writing...
...rotating chair to study disorientation in zero-G, climbing into a pressure chamber that measures the accumulation of blood in the lower body, contributing daily samples of blood (and freezing them) for laboratory analysis back on earth. Only Skylab's bicycle exerciser, designed to measure the astronauts' stamina, gave the crew any trouble. Confronted by the heat and some badly adjusted straps on the machine, Astronaut Paul Weitz found that pedaling was too exhausting and cut the experiment short. The astronauts also beamed a lively TV show to earth and showed off their ability at handstands, backflips...