Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence in that country. On the Chinese mainland, the regime embarked on the "Resist America, Aid Korea" campaign complete with government drives for the collection of "patriotic donations" for the cause. What emerged from the Chinese stint in Korea was new-found respect throughout Asia for China's military prowess as exhibited against the United States...
...repeatedly, apparently without tiring. The Oriental rat flea, for instance, can hop steadily for three straight days 600 times an hour. Now a group of researchers, led by British Entomologist Miriam Rothschild (of the banking family), believes that it has uncovered the secret of the flea's remarkable prowess...
...first there must come a decisive turn in the fortunes of battle. If at week's end the Israelis at last appeared to be pulling into the lead, the combatants themselves did not seem to realize it. The Arabs were still deeply proud of their new-found military prowess. The Israelis were still stricken with a bitterness perhaps greater than any they had known before...
...their passions and appetites spent the revelers have no place to go. It's the presence of melancholy and death in the face of a sensational bacchanal that distinguishes Ferreri's feast of carrion from its lowbrow cousins. Characters in porn movies are evaluated with regard to their sexual prowess and their freedom from guilt, and they are never more than temporarily unhappy: more frequent and more intense sex can solve any passing malaise. But here, the pleasures of the flesh are but harbingers of the coffin, and Ferreri's pestilential houseparty is, finally, a warning, an exemplum, an inverse...
...midweek, no doubt encouraged by the Arabs' unexpected combat prowess, Brezhnev sent messages to Arab leaders asking them to give "the greatest possible support" to Egypt and Syria. The two countries, he told Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, "must not remain alone in their struggle against a perfidious enemy" and urged him to contribute Algerian combat experience. Arabs read this as both a militant exhortation and a cautionary note urging self-reliance...