Word: feat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minneapolis Sound (not to be mistaken with alternative rock's Minneapolis Sound of the Replacements and Husker Du, among others) was new and fresh. Powerful bass, a driving funk beat, suggestive lyrics and occasional guitar riffs propelled the Sound to the top with fans and critics both, a rare feat...
Like the football players, I was tired and could not eat the next day. Or the day after. Unlike them, I did not have to play a game under such conditions, as remarkable a feat--in its own brave, perverse way--as Penn's undefeated season last year...
...facts with a resonant ring, few can match the one dredged up by Rieff: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot had its U.S. premiere at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in 1956. Quien es Godot? Quien sabe? The play is a masterpiece about waiting and making everything from nothing, a feat, these literary carpetbaggers convince us, that is not uncommon in Miami...
...mainstream stocks, which are heavily played by institutional investors, have inspired many private investors to march to a different ticker. They prefer to find lesser-known companies whose stocks are undervalued or potential earnings overlooked. But to arrive at a hot property before Wall Street professionals is a feat that requires lots of homework, constant vigilance and a cool head. Says Investor Jeffrey Solomon, a hardware-sales representative based in Great Neck, N.Y., who carries a hand- held stock monitor at all times and studies charts and newsletters every night: "The astute investor can beat money managers. They are human...
...civic icon but a messy series of collisions that knock together the arrangements of the nation's life. Those arrangements become America's history -- what its people do, what they are, what they mean. Walt Whitman wrote, "I contain multitudes." That is what the Constitution does -- an astonishing feat considering the variety of multitudes that have landed on American shores, and continue to land...