Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dubious Service. The aura of invincibility that now surrounds McCarthy owes something to Senator McCarthy himself, not a man to discourage reports of his own prowess. But the McCarthy myth was not created by parthenogenesis. It was busily fertilized not only by McCarthy, but by one notable group of McCarthy's enemies: the apologists for the New and Fair Deals...
...announced plans for the erection of a memorial chapel to Harvard's war dead, and the mathematics department released plans for a tutorial set up. Mental telepathy threatened to make math a useless field, however. It was the national craze, and all over the College people boasted of their prowess. But the University, eager to expose a fraud, persuaded several instructors to sign up for seances and thus expose the self-styled spiritualists. The craze ended quickly at Harvard after that...
Newt Oliver, volatile basketball coach of tiny Rio Grande College, yesterday challenged Yale University to a game next year to prove the prowess of his scoring star, Clarence Bevo Francis...
...result a few of the Crimson's top performers such as Bob Twitchell, Bob Rittenberg, and Pete Dow will get plenty of chances to show their prowess over the spring. But the men who practice day in and day out so that someday they might get a meet-winning second or third place are being ignored...
Handle with Care. Howe's scoring prowess, by his own taciturn admission, stems partly from constant study of rival goalies' weaknesses: "You vary your shots with the goalie-high for McNeil of Montreal, on the ice against Henry of Boston." But Howe's main scoring assets are a pair of powerful wrists (strengthened by summertime golf and softball), an ability to shoot from either side, and the shifty knack of disguising his intentions. Charging into an opponent's zone, Howe has been known to ward off a defenseman with one elbow and still...