Word: stamina
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...observers searched for signs of recent illness, Brezhnev displayed exemplary endurance. He remained alert throughout Andropov's 55-minute speech, in which the KGB chief reiterated Brezhnev's invitation to President Reagan to meet in Europe next October. Following the speech, the Soviet leader even had the stamina to attend a two-hour concert of Russian songs and dances. Though the true state of his health could not be ascertained, Brezhnev looked fit enough to make his next scheduled public appearance, a review of the annual May Day parade in Red Square...
...respect for Congress nor the experience in shaping legislation that can be acquired only through years of service. There is considerable tension, in fact, between the oldtimers and the freshmen. "The intellectual and educational level of Congress has increased," says Democratic House Leader Jim Wright. "But the moral stamina in terms of basic integrity and guts has declined. Members are now more concerned about image and less about substance...
Lind is nothing if not uneven. Weirdness follows weirdness, vision succeeds vision, sometimes worthy of a Hebrew prophet, sometimes no more than a gag-writer's whimsy. But Travels to the Enu adds up to far more than a tour de force. It takes true stamina to be so profoundly lost. After all these years on the road, Lind is no more bitter and no less funny than when he started, an impressive feat given the course of history in the meantime. His mind may swarm with hoofed and steaming demons like a phantasmagoric painting by Pieter Bruegel...
...Nixon Administration sought a foreign policy that eschewed both moralistic crusading and escapist isolationism. The subtlest critique of our policy held that our emphasis on national interest ran counter to American idealism. On this thesis, Americans must affirm general values or they will lack the resolution and stamina to overcome the Soviet challenge; America must commit itself to a crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate...
John D. Rockefeller's best-known son was Nelson-four-time Governor of New York, a man of great energy and stamina who harvested Venezuelan chili peppers with the same zest that he collected modern art. Rockefeller owned some of the world's costliest real estate, but for all his wealth and organization he could not sign a lease on the property he wanted most, the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He had to settle for an appointment as Vice President in the Ford Administration, where he glumly complained, "I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes...