Word: stoicism
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...entire vestibule and half the pinochle game reply smugly: "Listen, you gotta have a lot of humor and a tremendous amount of stoicism to survive the Long Island Rail Road." Each, hardier than thou, recounts a tale of endurance. "You should have been here yesterday. The people who change at Jamaica got on a train that already had passengers from two trains loaded onto it. Then they rode out to the middle of Queens Village and stopped for an hour. No explanation. No seats. No air." The man crouched on his briefcase one-ups: "You should have been here last...
Most Indians will remember Indira Gandhi [WORLD, Nov. 12] as a woman of great fearlessness, even though her reputation will always be hemmed in by qualifying clauses. Despite her aloofness, she appeared strangely accessible. It would be an injustice to mistake her stoicism for stony heartlessness. As she said in an interview after her younger son's death, 'The wounds are there, but perhaps some scars do not show...
...Anita track in California during the winter of 1979, his fairy tale turned to nightmare: a seemingly endless 110-race losing streak. Other riders murmured that he was tentative, for a jockey the kiss of death. The once-upon-a-time darling was lustily booed. Recalls Cauthen, with typical stoicism: "I was a bit shocked about the way people reacted to what was happening to me." At his lowest point, he accepted a lucrative offer from the wealthy English horse owner Robert Sangster to race for him during the English flat season. Why not, Cauthen mused. "I felt...
...time, there was no joy. A stillness was in the locker room as 20 drained hockey players looked for reasons for the loss. But underneath the silence, underneath the hung-down heads and flushed heads, underneath the queasy feeling that there were no more chances, there was a stubborn stoicism...
...stoicism of a team that had done all that it could...