Word: feat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same goal for the men. "If a team doesn't go into a season hoping to win the league championship, then they shouldn't go into the season at all," he explains. But a victory in the Heps (the league championship) will prove to be a very difficult feat indeed...
...ever figured out a way to impose anything like prisoner rehabilitation. Most ex-inmates do not return to prison, but there seems to be no way to reduce the incorrigible minority, at least 30%, who will return within three years. Thus what prisons have failed to accomplish is a feat that a more modest (or less benevolent) people would not have counted on. "Rehabilitate? What is rehabilitate?" scowls Eddie Meeks, an inmate at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois. "You can't rehabilitate me if I don't want to." Daniel Weil, a former Chicago warden and prosecutor, is clear-sighted...
...line experience; dancing just does not go further . . . And though she advanced to the very limit of the ballet's style, she never toppled into distortion. Farrell's choreography in Chaconne is already a study in rococo excess. To exceed excess and still not distort: quite a feat...
Prose can provide some fancy footwork too. To read Croce on Farrell- and others- is like having a tape library at hand. With a subject as difficult to describe as motion, that is quite a feat...
...uncertain. Says he: "It all happened so fast that only when I looked down and saw the floor did I know that we had done the trick." Actually, what the Flying Vazquezes accomplished together on July 10 in Tucson was much more than a trick. It was an athletic feat equivalent to the breaking of the 4-min. mile: the first quadruple somersault performed before a regular circus audience...