Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...height of World War I, air aces dogfight across European skies. In a startling revelation, the Red Baron's nemesis is shown to be a Major Larrabee (Rock Hudson), not Charles Schulz's Snoopy. No need to worry. Hudson's canine grin and acting prowess render him a close second to the vincible puppy. All that is missing is Linus, Lucy, Schroeder & Co. Standing in for them is a series of second-banana-peel comedians. Among them: a down-at-the-heils German agent, a couple of farceurs from the French intelligence, and a pip-pip righty...
Most scientists agree that the 1,000 or so known enzymes owe their prowess to their so-called "active sites," small areas that apparently latch on to specific molecules and guide them together to produce a chemical reaction. But this explanation fails to account for the remarkable speedup that the enzyme contributes to the process...
...prowess at the plate, Bench is also the best defensive receiver in the league. At 6 ft. 1 in. and 197 Ibs., he is well equipped for the rigors of the trade. He can smother wild pitches with either of his oversized hands, and his bazooka-like pegs prove his pronouncement that "I can throw out any base runner alive." The St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock did not believe it until he tried to run on Bench last season and stretch his skein of 21 consecutive stolen bases. End of skein...
...fours. Just before his spirit splinters, Horse is beguiled by an Indian maiden named Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei). The only way to bed her is to wed her, he reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes the Sun Vow, a masochistic ritual in which he is hoisted twelve feet above the earth, dangling by blades thrust into his pectoral muscles. He wins Running Deer, and eventually his freedom, but not before a series of unnatural tragedies destroys much of the tribe...
Harkness had the technical knowhow and the recruiting prowess to make any school into a hockey factory. But he needed a place that condoned that kind of program, a place whose academic reputation would be strong enough to attract people who didn't just want three letters in hockey to show for four years at college. Cornell gave Harkness carte blanche to construct his awesome machines, admitted the Canadian imports he wanted, covered him when he went out of bounds (as in the McGuinn case), and sat back to enjoy the results-five Ivy championships, four ECAC titles...