Word: stamina
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...politics, the chief executive has to adjudicate. He learns, sooner than many professional politicians seem to, that you cannot promise everything to everybody. And like the successful politician, he has the fire in the belly; he could not have arrived where he has unless he had ambition, physical stamina and emotional stability...
...most powerful influence on Reagan is his wife Nancy, 52. Says a former aide: "Nancy is a strong woman with strong opinions. She's the one to talk politics with. She likes it, the details and all, more than he does." She also has more stamina on the stump. Recently she willingly submitted to a grueling round of twelve interviews with reporters in six hours...
...meet itself held no surprises. Potent Princeton, which demolished both Harvard and Yale in last week's tri-meet, whipped all competitors in a smooth display of strength and stamina. Placing all five of their runners in the top thirteen, they posted a remarkably low score...
...Memorial that was at one time intended to serve as his tomb, Franco rarely emerged from his palace. Even the fishing trips must have become a dispiriting confirmation of the mortality he hated to acknowledge, a further assault on the pride he took in past feats of skill and stamina. In 1957 he had been named national amateur fishing champion for catching a 712-lb. tuna with rod and reel, the largest ever landed by rod in Spanish waters. He also boasted of shooting 8,420 partridges in one year...
...Wallace's chartered jet for ten hours in Newfoundland. Wallace was noticeably weary when he finally arrived in London early Monday morning. But with his usual cockiness, he drawled: "I've been up two nights now and I feel fine." He apparently wanted to demonstrate that his stamina had not been impaired by the paralysis that confines him to a wheelchair...