Word: prowesses
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...Penn's prowess is slightly harder to determine, but it is not impressive under any analysis. In their first meet on October 2, the Quakers were buried by Rutgers in no uncertain fashion...
What is important and valuable in a sexual relationship is not merely the excitement and pleasure but also its uniqueness and meaningfulness. This will not be achieved when it is indulged in as a show of athletic prowess in the male or as reassurance for his own faltering masculinity; nor in the female as a conventional compliance with what others are doing, or again to prove her own attractiveness and let her little world know that she has her man. If it is an expression of tenderness and caring and responsibility and mutuality it is quite a different matter...
...exhibition games for the old Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Browns, the late Rube Waddell occasionally waved his fielders to the bench and tried to strike out the side. It was a sensational stunt, but Eddie Feigner, the Rube Waddell of softball, puts on a similar display of prowess in every inning of every game he pitches...
...Rock-Thrower. Feigner, 38, traces his pitching prowess to his lonely childhood in Walla Walla, Wash. "I was a love child," he says, "and none of the parents would let their kids play with me." Left to himself, young Eddie spent countless hours alone in woods and fields, throwing rocks. After he developed into a rock-thrower of prodigious force and accuracy, he switched from rocks to softballs. Pitching for his grade school and high school teams, he won 103, lost none...
...Wright began batting balls around a driving range at nine, played her first real round of golf at eleven. Within a year she was breaking 100. "The kids at school called me 'Moose,' " she says. "I had a terrible inferiority complex. I needed something to show my prowess. Golf was it." Mickey stopped feeling inferior at 15, when she shot a 70 in a San Diego tournament. In 1954 her father staked her to a summer on the pro tour-as an amateur. Mickey was low amateur at the Tarn O'Shanter, the St. Petersburg Open...