Word: stamina
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Radcliffe lost its stamina as the second half progressed and quickly fell behind in the fast-paced game. Crimson coach Carole Kleinfelder said, "It was an excellent game and the girls played very well, but were lacking the stamina to keep up in the second half...
These are worthy goals. They can be achieved. But they summon a different dimension of moral conviction than that of a simpler past. They require the stamina to persevere amid ambiguity, and the courage to hold fast to what we believe in while recognizing that at any one time our hopes are likely to be only gradually fulfilled. It is the essence of moral purposes that they appear absolute and universal. It is the essence of foreign policy to take into account the views of others who may also see their values in this manner...
...Mexico City, Rosalynn displayed the even temperament and stamina she had shown on the campaign trail. Nothing seemed to throw her off stride, not even the 7,349-ft. altitude of Mexico City, which does in many tourists, nor a rash of antigovernment bombings that erupted just before her arrival. During LÓpez Portillo's inaugural speech in the National Auditorium, Rosalynn applauded as the new President appealed for unity and austerity to solve Mexico's deepening economic problems...
...been the peer to watch. The son of a Navy enlisted man, Watson went from high school at Pine Bluff, Ark., to Vanderbilt University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1960. He joined the Marines the same year. A slender man of 150 Ibs., Watson had remarkable stamina: He set two permanent obstacle-course records at the Quantico base, where he became an officer. He bucked for the Marines' most elite outfit, the First Force Reconnaissance company, and had to survive a list of training schools that were excruciating even for Leatherneck standards: cold-weather, escape and evasion...
...almost by the time I had learned to talk." He won a scholarship to Cheltenham, a leading private school, then went on to Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1964. When he lost his seat in 1974, Harold Wilson dispatched him to the U.N., where his quick repartee, enormous stamina and warmth of personality immediately made their mark. Says one former aide: "His method, which befits the good barrister he is, is to persuade rather than dictate." Adds a senior Foreign Office diplomat: "Had he become a member of the diplomatic service instead of a lawyer and politician, he would have...