Word: stamina
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Bryant was hospitalized last spring with fluid in his lungs. He has since given up chain-smoking unfiltered cigarettes and has begun swimming daily to build his stamina. Says one friend: "He'll never admit it, but he wants those records so bad he can taste it. He's got himself into the best shape he has been in for years because he has to have good health if he is going to win football games...
...that contact. This is, of course, self-indulgence led to an often abrading extreme. But on the other hand, self-indulgence, coupled with with, passion, and intelligence, has always been the touchstone of the successful essayist. "Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and stamina to write essays" advised E.B. White. Didion's collected pieces in The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem frankly do not purport to be objective social history, and we would be missing the point to regard them as such. Rather, we read these meditations upon Bogota and Malibu, John Wayne...
McEnroe, victorious over Borg in two matches out of five, marvels at the Swede's stamina...
Though society continues to change, Radcliffe remains much the same for Trower; it continues to cultivate a strong-spirited woman. "Underneath there's not so much change. The education gives you stamina and backbone to approach the world. I remember a Harvard man saying to me, 'You know what Harvard taught me? How to find out whatever I want to know whenever I want to know it.' And that was true about Radcliffe," Trower adds...
...home stretch, rushing away to a one-length victory over two California horses, Rumbo and Jaklin Klugman. The filly, carrying 5 Ibs. less than her male counterparts over the 1¼-mile Derby distance, was still running strongly at the wire, adding a convincing show of stamina to an upset victory that may well rank among the most remarkable in thoroughbred racing history. Genuine Risk won $250,550 for Owner Diana Firestone, and, as a 13-to-1 long shot, $28.60 for each of her $2 bettors...