Word: feat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full-page ads in the same issue of the Sunday Times Books Review. The book itself was no anticlimax; quickly greeted with critical acclaim, it eventually won the Pulitzer Prize. But Tuchman's dramatic account of the opening weeks of the First World War achieved an even more astonishing feat for a history book-in eight months it sold over 270,000 copies, and by October, The New Yorker could report that the book had already seen 33 weeks of best-sellerdom Tuchman appeared to have done the impossible she had made pure history sell...
Your coverage of the Boston Marathon results Tuesday disturbed me. Shattering the women's world marathon record by nearly three minutes is no small feat--surely Joan Benoit deserved more than a sub-headline and just two paragraphs buried in the middle of your story. A few personal quotes or some biographical details about her, as you had for Greg Meyer, the men's winner, would have made your article more complete. I hope in the future your sports department will be more professionally objective in coverage of women's athletics. Sara G. Shields...
...circle it necessitates. Certainly all efforts must be made to control nuclear weapons. But few positive steps can be taken in this direction until detente once again characterizes U.S. Soviet relations. Yet a return to detente seems to hinge in part on a mutual reduction in each side's feat--a fear which is caused to a large extent by nuclear weapons. To his credit. Arbatov recognizes this difficulty. And he understands how much more appealing a cold war environment ("where everything moves on the level of a cheap western") can be that the philosophy of detente, "in which...
...down, Harold lost his footing and suffered a critical leg wound. Only Taylor can descend for help. He is short 120 ft. of much needed rope, having left it at the last stopping place. He climbs the sheer wall three times to secure it. It is a feat of hair-raising tension that earns DeMunn spontaneous applause for his endeavors. But nature is not mocked or appeased. The rope hurtles by the pair in a brutal snowslide that nearly buries them...
...have to start better than they did last night Slow and unorganized after the spring break, the spikers just withstood a fierce Springfield challenge in the first game of the best-of-five contest, and actually had to come from behind in order to duplicate away from home the feat they accomplished at the IAB on March...