Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearty respect for Soviet fighting prowess, and new respect for Russian ability to inspire its satellites to fight...
...generations night-foundered students have made a practice of climbing in over the college walls. Rasher spirits, who like night climbing for night climbing's sake, have attacked the spiky heights of Oxford's 73-ft. Martyrs' Memorial,* and left it capped with proofs of their prowess-on several occasions, a chamberpot. Last week, two members of Oxford's Mountaineering Club who had tackled the spire got a sharp comeuppance...
...Brazil, some misguided people vow that it increases sexual prowess, others are under the delusion that it makes a man impotent. In Haiti, they say it is the only thing that will cause Damballah and his wife Ayida Oueddo, a pair of the chief deities of the voodoo pantheon, to put in an appearance at a voodoo session. Chinese bankers have taken to serving it instead of tea, and Italian aristocrats offer it to their guests instead of champagne. Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills...
...athletic prowess was the talk of the countryside. Seizing a 100-lb. blacksmith anvil with one hand, he would lift it straight out and up, and then with both hands toss it over his shoulder. At 44, and holding a brick in each hand, so the story goes, he completed three consecutive standing broad jumps totaling 36 feet. (U.S. standing broad-jump record, without bricks: 11 ft. 4⅞ in.) At 50, he could stand in an empty barrel and jump out without touching...
...Blue freshman team boasts John Marshall, who has twice this month broken the world 440-yard freestyle record, his best time being 4:36:5, and Jimmy McLane, Olympic and national champion in various freestyle events. However, the prowess of the Crimson's Pete Dillingham and Dave Hedberg may combine with Yale's lack of depth to give the precocious freshmen some trouble...