Word: prowesses
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...sheiks control not a domain but a tribe constantly on the move as their flocks wander in search of pasture. The Old Lion ruled them through the power of the sword, held their allegiance with the promise of protection and with gifts, cemented it with his prodigious sexual prowess. He used to take a sheik's daughter as wife for a night, divorce her next day with royal gifts-leaving the tribe well pleased at the honor and perhaps contributing one more to his proud total of 40 sons and uncounted daughters...
Bryant Danner, a 6-5 sophomore, who has shown remarkable rebounding prowess, will replace Woolston in the starting lineup. The other four regulars, guards Bob Hastings and Dick Hurley, center Ike Canty, and forward Monk Muncaster will open at their customary positions...
...about "organ inferiority" leading to compensation, and often overcompensation, must have been derived from his childhood. (Adler's earliest memory was of himself as an ailing, rachitic two-year-old, bandaged like a mummy, immobile on a park bench while his elder brother bounced around showing off his prowess.) A disciple of Freud until he broke with him in 1911, Adler insisted that human beings are called upon to advance "an ideal society amongst mankind...
Egypt: Proved its military prowess was overrated, but showed itself internally more stable than expected...
...though they disagree violently on the ways to reach them. Spokesmen for both political parties recognize the need for better housing, broader educational opportunity, more effective health insurance, elimination of racial and religious discrimination, freer foreign trade, the continuing responsibility of the U.S. to share its wealth and technical prowess with the underdeveloped nations of the world. But the liberal looks first to Government to do many of the tasks on the ground that Government can do them quicker. The conservative, who knows that the hasty solution can be fatal, thinks first of private means, then local government, and only...