Word: prowesses
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...they say. Blasting out of the backfield as if he were fired from a bazooka, Green has darted through defenders for 1,182 yds. this season. Matthews is a big powerful runner who rolls over rather than around tacklers. But his greatest attraction to the pros is his blocking prowess: "This man dominates a game whether he's carrying the ball or blocking for someone else." (18) JOHN CAPPELLETTI, Penn State, 6 ft. 1 in., 210 Ibs., who won the Heisman Trophy last week, is a hard-running tailback who appeals to the pro scouts. In two seasons, Cappelletti...
...presence in that country. On the Chinese mainland, the regime embarked on the "Resist America, Aid Korea" campaign complete with government drives for the collection of "patriotic donations" for the cause. What emerged from the Chinese stint in Korea was new-found respect throughout Asia for China's military prowess as exhibited against the United States...
...repeatedly, apparently without tiring. The Oriental rat flea, for instance, can hop steadily for three straight days 600 times an hour. Now a group of researchers, led by British Entomologist Miriam Rothschild (of the banking family), believes that it has uncovered the secret of the flea's remarkable prowess...
...first there must come a decisive turn in the fortunes of battle. If at week's end the Israelis at last appeared to be pulling into the lead, the combatants themselves did not seem to realize it. The Arabs were still deeply proud of their new-found military prowess. The Israelis were still stricken with a bitterness perhaps greater than any they had known before...
...their passions and appetites spent the revelers have no place to go. It's the presence of melancholy and death in the face of a sensational bacchanal that distinguishes Ferreri's feast of carrion from its lowbrow cousins. Characters in porn movies are evaluated with regard to their sexual prowess and their freedom from guilt, and they are never more than temporarily unhappy: more frequent and more intense sex can solve any passing malaise. But here, the pleasures of the flesh are but harbingers of the coffin, and Ferreri's pestilential houseparty is, finally, a warning, an exemplum, an inverse...