Word: prowesses
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Reluctant to make any definite forecasts so early in the year, Mikkola revealed that Irv Prelusky has displayed great promise putting the shot. Dave Murray's prowess with the javelin also received an enthusiastic boost...
Died. General Jorge Ubico, 67, Guatemala's efficient, undersized, Napoleon-complexed dictator-President (1931-44), who balanced the budget and produced a little but not too much prosperity ("If the people have money they'll kick me out"), and was fond of showing his boxing prowess by beating up his Cabinet members (with armed guards present); after long illness; in New Orleans...
...decline and fall of our athletic prowess has been going on so long that I find myself thinking up excuses for our probable defeat even before the event has started...
...Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca," Strauss his "greatest Salome...
...banjo hitter he, our Gold Coast Gehringer slapped out screaming line drives with which he interspersed sparkling gems of fielding prowess. Amidst the plaudits of his teammates, he cried, "For God, for country, and for Adams." "Adams, Hell, We're From Winthrop House." He leaves for Mexico City tomorrow...