Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Funds. In 1936, after Lahey's barroom prowess had turned into, a city-room problem, he crawled out of Coventry by volunteering for his first labor assignment, a story on the C.I.O.'s newly formed Steel Workers Organizing Committee. The story was so good that Ed Lahey became the News's labor authority. "Anyone who goes out on a labor story and doesn't fall flat on his face," says Lahey deprecatingly, "becomes, quote a labor expert, unquote." Nevertheless, Expert Lahey combined human interest and fair-minded interpretation to such good effect in covering...
...pastoral character, using four French horns, but suffers from extreme lengthiness. Backed by such first chair palyers as flutist Cynthia Crain and cellist Stephen McGhee, conductor Greene baum exacted a virtuoso performance from the orchestra. It is a pleasure to have a local group with the ambition and the prowess of the Bach Society...
...Friday was in New York. No one knows how Meigs felt, but the rest of the team was pretty vocal to writers. The Crimson claimed that the Big Red deliberately ran no plays at Meigs the whole game, and therefore he had little chance to show his true prowess...
...Byers Peak Ranch, 8,750 ft. in the high Rockies, the President of the U.S. looked ruddy and fit. It had been a pleasant vacation-within-a-vacation: Ike had taken it easy, fishing in the chilly water of St. Louis Creek, dabbling at his painting, and demonstrating his prowess as a mess sergeant by preparing all the meals for the stag party. He put the camp on a two-big-meals-and-no-lunch regimen. His menus were hearty: a breakfast of fried cornmeal mush with chicken-giblet gravy and sausages, a dinner of spareribs and sauerkraut, corn bread...
...proud dairy country of Normandy, there were other dairymen, jealous perhaps, who cast a suspicious eye on Kramer's skill and Marie's prowess. They studied his methods carefully. One day last week they sent four village gendarmes to surround Marie's pasture. As Kurt started milking, the gendarmes burst from the bushes and shouted. "Hands up!" They had caught...