Word: feat
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...Doolittle brothers, sophomore Ted and freshman Mike, have both rowed in it. Last year's freshmen won the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley, this year's group express absolute confidence in their ability to repeat the feat. Even their coach the notoriously cautious Ted Washburn, calls them "a good strong boat...
...prefers, over the artificial Tartan, Budd ran the 5,000 meters in an amazing 15:01.83, shaving nearly 7 sec. from Mary Decker's world-record time. Although she runs with an unearthly determination-like "safari ants on the march," says her full-time coach, Pieter Labuschagne-her feat remains unofficial. The International Amateur Athletic Federation ousted South Africa in 1976 for its apartheid policies; the country is also banned from the Olympics...
...immunity to the dehumanized values of his colleagues, when he falls madly in love with another employee. He chooses the primacy of his emotions over the robotic ambition of the business world and still survives as a sensitive, somewhat moody, young man in a corporate jungle. No mean feat...
Ranked fifth in the nation, the Crimson will be looking to extend its winning streak to nine straight games, a feat that would be the second longest winning streak in Harvard women's lacrosse history. The current record is 16 straight wins...
...point in the fighting, the contras said, they used mortars to drive away a Nicaraguan patrol boat accompanied by two fishing trawlers. The rebel commander said one of the boats had later been sunk and that "your countrymen did it." According to the A.R.D.E. officer, the feat was accomplished by a small boat launched from a ship offshore. Said the rebel officer: "We don't have the trained people to take care of anything on the sea. So it was understood that marine engagements would be taken care of by another party." In the past, the A.R.D.E. has never...