Word: feat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chrysler Cup began in earnest. It is sort of an old fogy's Ryder Cup pitting the Yanks against the world. Palmer and Gene Littler were paired against Player and New Zealander Bob Charles. The course buzzed with hole-in-one fables. The P.G.A. Tour believed Palmer's feat to be unique, though Chi Chi Rodriguez claimed as many as five in six weeks. Miller Barber said, "Oh sure, I've won four or five automobiles over the years." Billy Casper was undecided whether his best was in Okinawa, where all Japan carried him off on its shoulders, or Boise...
...entire academic subject, says Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy. "We're try to cover the origin of life, new evolutionary theory and the more recent meterological past of the earth. To do the entire earth and life in an hour and a half is quite a feat...
Lauren has gone multinational, a feat that many European designers achieved decades ago but that their U.S. counterparts have never quite managed to duplicate on the same scale. In the same month that he opened his Madison Avenue mansion for business, Lauren unveiled a grand salon in Paris. Says Patrick McCarthy, editor of Women's Wear Daily: "He is the first American designer to seize the potential for the American look in Europe...
Recounting the highlights of what has already become the most celebrated feat of underwater exploration, Ballard revealed some startling new information. His deep-diving craft failed to find the 300-ft. gash that, according to legend, was torn in the Titanic's hull when the ship plowed into the iceberg. Instead, he suggested, the collision had buckled the ship's plates, allowing water to pour in. He also brought back evidence that the ship broke apart not when she hit bottom, as he had thought when viewing the first Titanic images last September, but as she sank: the stern, which...
...playing his associate's Guadagnini. He traded again, and she flawlessly finished the piece, earning a tumultuous ovation from the audience and hugs and kisses from Bernstein and her two lenders. "It was really going for me by then," she said by way of explaining the three-fiddle feat."I really like the work, and I didn't want to stop and spoil...