Word: stamina
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...talks, he tries to joke at times, tries to convince people that he deserves to be Senator. He's tired of being a representative and is an ambitious young man. On the wall behind Tsongas is an old World War II poster. "Victory," it reads, "is a question of Stamina." You can see it in his eyes.CrimsonP.J. Balshi...
...Amiable Amateurs, who ride bikes year round but see the Ragbrai as the big annual adventure and stamina test...
...very slow; he has lost matches for failing to make the stipulated 40 moves in five hours of play. In Baguio City, the first player to win six games takes the match; since draws are frequent in top-level play, the men will need both ample patience and stamina. To keep in shape, Korchnoi jogs daily; his diet includes health foods and Iranian caviar-of which he has imported enough to last 30 games. Karpov, whom one observer likened to "a Boy Scout," swims, rows and does calisthenics...
...game was big too. Early on, the 5-ft. 7-in. Navratilova was nicknamed the Iron Maiden for her stamina and physical power. Her first serve is the strongest women's tennis has seen since the heyday of Margaret Court. Even as a teenager, she could pin opponents to the stadium wall with deep, booming serves. She charged to the net for follow-up volleys as aggressively as Billie Jean King at her fearless peak. With adequate (if occasionally unsteady) groundstrokes, her only on-court enemy was herself: she rattled easily, making unforced errors, while her concentration wandered. Still...
America's tolerance for this tale has been lamentably low. Sales of Gulag II fell far behind the bestselling Gulag I. Many of the books' best-intentioned buyers have lacked the stamina to hear Solzhenitsyn out to the end. Harper & Row's postponement of further publication was apparently designed to provide readers with a respite before tackling the final volume...