Word: stamina
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...struggle will be at 9 p.m. tonight-the third match of the day for each team Fatigue will no doubt play an important role, which works to the advantage of the Tigers, who in 31 games this season, have had a greater opportunity to develop both their depth and stamina...
GOING to the movies alone and needing to buy acne medicine were two nightmares just one baby-step inside the walk-in closet of adolescent fears. Try vainly to see the UHS dermatogist for the second, out if Saturday night finds you alone and without the mental stamina to distinguish formulation two of Kant's categorical Imperative from formulation three, then see Bad Manners, a sometimes tacky, sometimes funny, sometimes tasteless, but nearly always funny flick...
...Ohio and Louisiana, it seemed more like a retreat than a strategy. Gibed Mondale: "He ought to stick around and get his delegates the old-fashioned way like I do-I earn them." As he closed in on the prize, Walter Mondale, once dismissed as lacking the fire and stamina for a presidential campaign, could make that claim with special pride. -By George J. Church. Reported by Sam Allis with Hart and David Beckwith with Mondale...
...ritual seems strange. Things just aren't done that way any more. Not even in Chad, where ten years ago President Ngarta Tombalbaye ordered all high government officials to undergo Yondo, a sometimes fatal initiation ritual combining physical abuse (e.g., flogging, mock burial) with ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina (e.g., crawling naked through a nest of termites). For his pains, Tombalbaye was assassinated within a year, and his people danced in the streets. Americans bear their burdens with better humor. They show no inclination to deal nearly so decisively with, say, the Hubert Humphrey test of presidential toughness. Humphrey...
Touré grandly styled himself the Supreme Father of the Revolution. To Guineans, he was the "Big Elephant," known for his broad shoulders and great stamina. Often his elephantine power was used to crush those he thought opposed him. In the 1970s, he ordered thousands of people arrested. By 1976, according to Amnesty International, at least 2,900 citizens had "disappeared." Many were sent to detention camps, where some prisoners were locked in cells that were too small to allow them to stand up or lie down and were put on the infamous "black diet," completely deprived of food...