Word: prowesses
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Sophomore Katie Zacarian, a second team All-Ivy selection last year, held off New Hampshire’s attack with 15 saves, including impressive back-to-back saves in the first half of the game. Zacarian continues to demonstrate her prowess by foiling one-on-one plays, coming out of goal at the right times, and stopping shots from high flicks to drives across the circle...
...kick balls, or chase one another for 100 meters or 26 miles? And what compels us to watch them at play and pay them exorbitantly for that privilege? It is better explained from inside a stadium filled with 80,000 singing, screaming fans, strangers bonding to celebrate the physical prowess of mortals, sharing victory that, although senseless in the abstract, provokes a kind of unfettered joy that even art and music can't match. It's millions of French citizens pouring into the streets to celebrate a World Cup triumph. It's the exhilaration of a downhill run, sinking...
Meis and Turner, part of the architectural firm NBBJ Sports and Entertainment, serve up technical prowess--Meis' multiuse miracle in Japan transforms a 5,000-seat theater into a 20,000-seat arena or a 30,000-seat stadium at the touch of a few buttons--as well as simple strokes of genius, like turning hard-to-fill corner seats at the Philadelphia Eagles' upcoming stadium into courtyards where fans can socialize--and shell out cash...
...avoid the fate of 98-year-old Strom Thurmond, who has effectively relinquished his duties to an army of aides. Helms fights hard to maintain a vigorous image: Battles with prostate cancer and peripheral neuropathy have compromised his health in recent years, but his often biting wit and political prowess are still very much on display...
...Indeed, Thaksin does possess that rarest commingling of attributes: stellar academic prowess combined with an easy-going cool. For a math whiz, he doesn't come across as being only about differential calculus and regression analysis?he successfully communicates greater depth and a sort of popular-kid charisma. His aunt remembers him as always being a leader, even in the days when he and the other boys were making banana-tree stalks into toy horses and riding around, pretending to be cowboys...