Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time with a few of the women to forget his awkwardness. But each time his hopes ended in misunderstanding. He or the woman would express feelings that the other was not ready for, and things would fall apart. When Walter left high school he was cocky in his academic prowess, but his dealings with women were stymied by his nervousness...
...nerve, some crude explosives and a simple plan of action, who do him in. There are plenty of spectacular thrills in the sequence, but it remains always in scale, an extension of the realistic tone that has distinguished the earlier portions of the film. Even the sniper's prowess is explicable. He is, himself, a onetime cop. His psychopathic rage has turned against his former colleagues for reasons that make gruesome psychological sense...
...night for the monthly meeting of the Chitlin' Club, founded in 1936. Between liberal swigs of bourbon and peach moonshine, the hardy souls consumed 200 lbs. of boiled hog intestines, which smelled a lot like a thousand dirty socks, and talked mostly of their bygone feats of athletic prowess. Said Hudson: "Most folks come to the Chitlin' Club to eat and forget their worries." But the talk did momentarily veer to Carter's brother Billy. Said a brawny club member: "That Billy is a candy ass if all he drinks is those sissy little 7-ounce beers...
...word editorial in the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily. The article offered the first official blow-by-blow account of the plots perpetrated by the Gang of Four in the weeks surrounding the death of Mao and focused on the gang's prowess as forgers. The forgery involved the last instructions issued by Mao, which are presently being trumpeted all over China in order to legitimize the rule of Mao's successor, Hua Kuo-feng. Mao reportedly wrote to Hua, "Act in line with past principles; with you in charge I am at ease." Days after...
...native of St. Louis, Missouri, I was shocked and dismayed upon my arrival in Cambridge three years ago at the incredible chauvinism and parochialism of Easterners. You pride yourselves on your amazing intellectual prowess, yet you have displayed a lack of knowledge of fourth-grade geography. In your article concerning election results you state that Carter won "without winning a single state west of the Mississippi River with the exception of Texas." Please, before the 1980 election, check the map for the location of the state of Missouri. Charlie Baum...