Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Battle of Waterloo had been won on the playing fields of Eton. The lessons learned on the playing field are among the most basic: the setting of goals and joining with others to achieve them; an understanding of and respect for rules; the persistence to hone ability into skill, prowess into perfection. In games, children learn that success is possible and that failure can be overcome. Championships may be won; when lost, wait till next year. In practicing such skills as fielding a grounder and hitting a tennis ball, young athletes develop work patterns and attitudes that carry over into...
...heavier government spending might pump up already high inflation. Selling more goods to other industrial nations is no answer, either. It leads to furious charges that the exporting country is destroying jobs in the importing nation; witness the anger in the U.S. and Europe against Japan's export prowess...
...sipping a modest martini, Rodney Dangerfield mused over his tumultuous climb to the pinnacle of comic prowess...
...dresses a little more neatly and wears a few more white shirts and stiff collars. His principal aide, Hamilton Jordan, appears more often in a suit and tie and leaves his boots at home. Carter weighs a steady 154, and his bowling prowess has improved to 160-165 a game. He has had more of the White House trees labeled, and he wanders among them as friend and admirer...
...league's second worst club, the Houston Rockets, and he needed a lift. Emerging from a disco after a few consoling beers, he got one. A man who claims to hold the world's record for push-ups (9,000 in five hours) offered to demonstrate his prowess. Cunningham gingerly stepped onto his back. Up, down, up, down-two full push-ups with the 212-lb. coach aboard. "Only in the N.B.A.," said Cunningham, "do you meet crazy people like that...