Word: feat
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...class, no one who saw the strain etched on his face would question his Olympian effort. The audience at the Loyola Marymount University arena was a reverent one, quieting to a hush as the athletes approached a barbell, then exploding into tumult following an extraordinary feat. After Rumanian Nicu Vlad, 20, broke an Olympic record in the 198-lb. class with a 485-lb. clean and jerk, the crowd called him back from the dressing room for a bow. Rumania and China took most of the medals, 14 of 30 at stake. The U.S. gathered two, a bronze...
Though they expected to profit athletically from the absence of their East bloc colleagues, the Rumanians more than tripled the number of medals they won in Moscow in 1980, a feat that could not wholly be explained by the bloc's absence. "It's not our biggest Olympic team, but it's our best," said Team Spokesman Alex Lazarescu of the 127 athletes dispatched to Los Angeles, down from the 237 at the Moscow Games. "Quality, not quantity this time." Rumanian women blitzed the rowing events, for instance, winning five of six gold and taking the silver...
...Nonconformity in our city is no easy feat; it's hard to find any standard to rebel against." That was written by an Angeleno, David Clark...
...combined speed of 18,000 m.p.h., the interceptor's warhead expanded into an umbrella-shaped array of aluminum "ribs," 15 feet in diameter. As it turned out, the sensor aboard the killer rocket was so accurate that the ribs were unnecessary: the missiles themselves collided. The feat has been compared to one bullet hitting another, but, said Wilkinson, the two missiles were moving "about twice as fast as bullets...
...extraordinary engineering feat," Haggerty says, citing fewer injuries and faster times as evidence of its impact...