Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...riven by dissension and insubordination from teenage draftees who deserted, sometimes jumping off troop trains rather than going into battle, to senior generals who openly denounced the Kremlin's orders and local commanders who ignored them. Should the outside world be less worried about Russia's military prowess because the army seemed for the moment incapable of acting as an instrument of aggression? Or more worried that generals who still control nuclear weaponry scorn the commands of their civilian superiors...
...have all seen the type in high school who prefers to impress the ladies with his athletic prowess than to demonstrate his ability in solving quadratic equations. Indeed, as the authors of the recent book Learning Together: a History of Coeducation in American Schools observed, sports programs were grafted onto public secondary institutions in the late eighteenth century precisely to correct the perceived attack on boys' virility that coeducation had introduced. Many Harvard men view the presence of women in the same way, retreating to the football field or a final club to prove their masculinity...
...scholarship program searches for students who have shown academic achievement, integrity, leadership and athletic prowess. Approximately 60 foreign scholars were also selected from 17 countries around the world...
...POLITICAL CONSULTANT PAUL BEGALA, COMMENTING ON PRESIDENT CLINTON'S FOREIGN POLICY PROWESS...
...years of fear and hardship in captivity made the South African leader hard to know. "He is not a publicly introspective person," observes Stengel. "He'll tell you what he thinks, but not how he feels." At such impasses, Stengel needed all his journalistic prowess. "Rick has a tremendously keen eye for detail and the telling anecdote," says executive editor Jim Kelly. "He'd be the ideal companion to sit with someone and persuade them to describe scenes and encounters in the liveliest way possible...