Word: stamina
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...their swallow-tailed coats and frilly shirts, their long summer gowns and free-flowing hairdos, they look like characters from a bacchanal in Byron's own early 19th century London. They rival one another not only in elegance and extravagance but in sheer stamina, for the evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution...
...will satisfy herself with petit-bourgeois dreams of contentment. Fassbinder satirizes the bourgeois Communists (Mrs. Thalmann wears Cacherel blouses; she serves Mrs. K. from her sterling tea service while telling her "out aim is to get all a rightful share in what is produced."), the anarchists who lack the stamina to continue their sit-in through dinner hour, and the press which distorts and manipulates people, making the image more important than any truth which underlies...
Extraordinary Stamina. Yet her story also shows her extraordinary stamina. In the long, hard years when China's Communists were holed up in their precarious refuge in remote Yenan, women had to do hard physical labor in the fields and on reclamation projects, but were excused during their menstrual periods. Chiang Ch'ing scornfully refused this concession. Later, when she was daily plodding through the countryside near Wuhan in central China helping with land distribution to poor peasants, she sometimes almost dropped from exhaustion and still bitterly remembered the peasants' taunts: "Who do you think...
Carrying a body-length lead over UMass's Mary Ellen Butler for 18 of the 20 laps, Beckman used all her stamina to out-touch Butler for the important second-place finish by just 15 seconds...
...Genesis: 'He gave them dominion.' " On her first regular work day as a priest, Means cleaned her house, then visited Larue-Carter psychiatric hospital, where she calls on the sick. Declared a woman patient: "She will be a keystone because of her love of people, her stamina, her inner strength." Later at the Women's Prison, inmates greeted the new priest with hugs and kisses. "Maybe I can make it too," one said. As the diocese's institutional chaplain, Means will have priestly duties similar to those she had as a deacon for the past...