Word: feat
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While he didn't match last year's hat trick feat (in the semi-final game against Clarkson). Sheehy feels he "played as strongly as ever in those two ECAC playoff games...
...Knesset, all of them aimed at expressing the opposition's displeasure over the way in which the government had dealt with the recommendations of the independent commission charged with investigating the Beirut massacre of last September. In Lebanon, the fragile government of President Amin Gemayel accomplished the symbolic feat of replacing Christian militiamen on duty in Christian East Beirut with government soldiers for the first time since the Lebanese civil war began eight years ago. In Algiers, meanwhile, the Palestine National Council, the de facto parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organization, met for the first time since the forced...
...Cell and The Medusa and the Snail, described many aspects of science, technology, computers, and their effects on human life. Writing in a graceful and easy prose, he showed a flair for bringing technical and erudite concepts within reach of a layman. In his latest book, he repeats this feat, writing smoothly and understandably of histocompatibility complexes, mycoplasmas, and endotoxins...
TRAVELOGUES are as old as literature itself, but Blue Highways is more than anything an American work. A feat like Least Heat Moon's would be almost inconceivable anywhere else--to travel thousands and thousands of miles, from Nameless, Tenn., to Dime Box, Tex., to Bagley., Mon., to Cape Porpoise. Maine, and never pass outside the U.S. border, except for a small stretch of southern Canada. The faces of small-town America are as varied as their climates and geographies, from the Creoles of Louisiana to the Navajos of Nevada to the Yankees of Vermont. Yet if Blue Highways shows...
...first time ever. It was quite a coup for Fred Silverman, ABC'S programming chief, and in 1978 NBC, which had slipped to a gentleman's third place in the ratings, hired him as network president. By 1981 Silverman had pulled off an even more spectacular feat. He had demonstrated that with enough hard work, even a TV network could lose money. In his three years, NBC's earnings plunged from $51 million in profits to a $40 million loss...