Word: stamina
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...motion inside the rain is a war; her battling unnoticed. Even though catcalls seem to be flying from all directions. Tiny boys whistle at her sturdy legs, gasping exclamations of gosh and wow! She pays no attention. Older men whistle and stare, tickled by her constant effort, her stamina, and amazed that she seems to be enjoying what to all of them is an annoyance to be escaped as soon as possible...
...follow through, Lindner seems to wrap the racket around his head in a manner reminiscent of Jim Bunning falling off the mound, but his feet remain in position, and his quickness and stamina are already getting steadier...
...Forest," Pusey wrote, "We have no desire to have land under our trusteeship used for the purposes proposed by Con Ed." The committee's failure to include any consideration of the former President's position in its recommendations is hardly surprising in light of its self-confessed lack of "stamina". This admission appears to serve as a convenient excuse for not delving into the detailed environmental, aesthetic, and technical aspects of the complex Storm King proposal. It also shelters the shallow thinking which assumes that problems which fall on the University's doorstep will disappear if they are simply ignored...
...half the town of Cornwall. It notes the possible destruction of large portions of the striped bass population in the Hudson River, which provides spawning grounds for 80 to 90 per cent of the striped bass supply in the northeast United States. Although the committee professed a lack of stamina, it touched on almost every ecological question that the opposition to Storm King had cited during its lengthy court battles...
...worked for the U.N. since its inception and is now an Assistant Secretary-General. He is also the first man to be given access to Hammarskjöld's private papers. He sees the former Secretary-General as a man supremely equipped with the inner resources, courage, stamina and imperturbable tact to make the U.N. work. The book uses considerable inside knowledge as it follows Hammarskjöld through every major crisis of his day: McCarthyism, the aftermath ot Korea, Suez, Hungary, Lebanon, Algeria, the Congo...