Word: prowesses
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...while Fried’s physical prowess translates relatively naturally from the ice to the field, his feel for the game also helps ease the transition...
...Administration and military talking heads and flag-waving features like MSNBC's pandering "America's Bravest" wall of G.I. photos. Arab networks play to their audience too, which in their case means skepticism of allied claims, lots of tear jerking, and talking heads who doubt American motives and prowess. "Arab commentators don't dare say Iraq will lose the war," says Musa Keilani, editor in chief of Jordan's Al-Urdon newspaper. But, says Abdullah Schleifer, a professor of TV journalism at the American University in Cairo, al-Jazeera has become "more detached and balanced" since the days after 9/11...
Despite his dedication to IMs, Tai notes that he has very little interest in actually playing IM sports. “I think as far as athletic prowess, I would be one of the last people you would expect to be an IM rep. [The job] gives me more of a reason than I would have otherwise to go see the games,” Tai says...
...could to avoid it. But that was as far as he could go. Forsaking unconventional weapons, from his point of view, would have invited his own demise. His obsession with them seems inexplicable to many minds, but it made sense in Saddam's. The weapons, symbolizing Iraq's prowess, are what sustained his claims to grandeur. They made him a feared player on the world stage and earned him dominance among regional rivals. They were crucial to keeping domestic opposition in check--no Iraqi forgets that Saddam sprayed poison gas on rebellious Kurds in the late '80s. And Saddam believed...
...White House feigned indifference, and reassured the nation about American scientific prowess. Some of the U.S.'s top scientists, like M.I.T.'s Vannevar Bush, took refuge behind closed doors until they could figure out what to say. Worry seeped through the nation, always uncomfortable with second place. The U.S. hurried its thin, finely engineered rocket, with a satellite, to the launching pad two months later. But Vanguard lurched, buckled and blew up on the ground. The gentle astronomer John Hagen, who headed Project Vanguard, sucked on his ever present pipe and rightly pointed out that U.S. space science was more...