Word: prowesses
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...liked the plant too much to let it go, so I took it up to the foundry and asked them to try to cast it." Direct casting from such forms was done in the 19th century as a tour de force, proof of a foundry's technical prowess, and Ludwig of Bavaria once commissioned a bronze cast of a whole basketful of flowers, much admired by Graves. But the idea of making modern sculpture by these means had not been tried on a full scale before, although, like nearly everything else in the past 50 years, it was foreshadowed...
...such recogntion the icewomen had to face a tough competition along the way. To toughen the team and prove his squad's prowess. Harvard Coach John Dooley plotted a killer campaign for his charges. "It's one heck of a schedule," he remarked at the beginning of the season...
...prodigy, but his prowess became a cocky defense against teasing...
...Soviet Union, the building of a 2,759-mile natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe has become a test of technological prowess and a national crusade. Over the past two years, the Soviets have raced to finish the $ 18 billion project on schedule and prove that U.S. economic sanctions aimed at delaying the pipeline have had no impact. Construction crews, toiling feverishly in the harsh Siberian wilderness, were given 10% higher wages than similar laborers receive in Soviet cities and offered bonuses of up to six months' pay for fast work...
DIED. Richard Hughes, 77, flamboyant dean of Asia's English-language foreign press corps, whose Bible-quoting, storytelling prowess made him "Your Grace" to generations of journalists; of kidney and liver diseases; in Hong Kong. Born in Melbourne, Hughes covered the North African campaign of World War II and the Korean and Viet Nam wars, and reported on Asia for the Times of London and the Economist. He was the model for the journalist Old Craw in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy...