Word: prowesses
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Loes signed in 1949, spent that year in the minors. He spent most of the 1950 season sitting on the Dodger bench, jeering at rival players and boasting a pitching prowess he seldom got a chance to show. Last year he was in the Army...
...come to light in recent years that the citizens of Boston support two alleged baseball associations known respectively (in order of prowess) as the Battling Bosox and the National League Baseball Club of Boston...
...someone decided to characterize each House by an ideal, Kirkland's would be individual achievement plus group solidarity. Scholastic prowess, intramural athletics, extra-curricular activities, and cohesiveness all find their place in Kirkland House...
...team, admires her style and her spirit: "I guess she thinks you ought to be the way God made you. Anyway, I like it." Dave, who is a first-class skier but not in Andy's class, is also an unvexed admirer of his wife's prowess. Austria's Christian Pravda once tried to needle Dave: "How horrible to have a wife who can ski better!" Said Dave, equally deadpan: "She waits...
...Decathlon Natural. With his 50th straight victory last Dec. 30 in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl meet, vaulting Bob has practically nailed down a spot on the U.S. Olympic team for this summer's games in Helsinki-and not on his aerial prowess alone. Last May he gave a talk at Pasadena's John Muir College (subject: Christianity and athletics), dropped in two days later to enter a decathlon on the invitation of Muir's track coach. In the field events Richards turned out to be a natural, despite his lack of brawn...