Word: stamina
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...letter, written by Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68, John D. Tyson '69, and Stanley E. Greenidge '68, criticizes a column on the boycott by Times sports-writer Arthur Daley as insensitive "to the morale stamina of black athletes in this country." The letter appeared yesterday...
...built to accommodate 2,500 American and European workers. More than 18,000 Urdu-speaking Pakistanis were trained on the job, some learning to operate the most modern sort of earth-moving equipment. A special diet had to be provided for them after the contractors found they lacked the stamina for an eight-hour day. A month before the Jhelum River was to be diverted, war broke out between India and Pakistan. Though the battle line came within 50 miles of the site, only nightwork was stopped, since the camp had to be blacked out. The contractors were racing...
...from 'cellist Philip Moss and saxophonist Hardin Matthews, as well as some sultry low-register flutter-tonguing by the two flutists. Oboists George Donner's Gershwin-like plaints creation actually predates Rhapsody in Blue and American in Paris and high-register melody lines were models of sensitivity, control and stamina, Strangely, it was clarinetist Gary Gelber who received a special bow (for his flashy Benny Goodman virtuosity). Although Gelber was good, Donner was the hero of the evening...
Whether he was or not can never be shown conclusively. Author Weintraub thinks that Beardsley's tuberculous condition and his consuming passion for work left him little time and less stamina for dalliance. Bernard Shaw shrewdly noted that Beardsley was "boyish enough to pose as a diabolical reveler in vices of which he was innocent...
...Israel. What a tableau: There it stood, tiny and alone, cursed and menaced on every border by 14 scowling enemies. Yet today-"how are the mighty fallen!" But beginning with Abraham himself, Jewish history is replete with amazing exploits like this. Guts and stamina-the Israelis have them. Hail...