Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Squelching this one sign of Princeton prowess, the varsity responded with a goal 27 seconds later (the first of three for Blakey). Goalie Hill finished the period with 25 saves (better than one a minute) while lonely Chris Steedman registered a single stop in the varsity nets...
Looking like a chubby chipmunk in blue snow pants, the Prince of Wales manfully herringboned his way through his first ski lessons at the start of a ten-day snow holiday in Schuls, Switzerland. Prince Charles, 14, took his first lesson in private on a secluded slope, demonstrated enough prowess for lesson No. 2 to be a more public affair. Beamed Instructor Gisep Heinrich: "His Royal Highness has been doing very well today...
Several steps are required to wean our allies away from their dreams of nuclear prowess and to draw them into a coordinated nuclear command structure. The Administration should give allied governments more detailed information about our nuclear weapons, even at the cost of certain risks to security. Such information should hopefully reassure them that the U.S. had adequate nuclear forces specifically earmarked for the defense of Europe...
...rifles; one helicopter even returned to base with an arrow stuck in its fuselage. Today, with more practice and an abundant supply of captured U.S. weapons, the Viet Cong gangmen can make things hot for the most skilled U.S. helicopter pilot. Last week the Viet Cong forces proved their prowess by shooting down five helicopters over rice marshes southwest of Saigon and inflicting a brutal defeat on the government forces...
...power, which means that they are superior to blacks . . . and the world has innumerable ways of making this difference known and felt and feared." When Baldwin was ten, two white cops "amused themselves with me by frisking me, making comic (and terrifying) speculations concerning my ancestry and probable sexual prowess, and, for good measure, leaving me flat on my back in one of Harlem's empty lots...