Word: feat
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This proposition is not as contradictory as it sounds, since, for one thing, the fact that it takes real (i.e., natural) intelligence to create the artificial kind would seem to give humanity a perpetual edge; and, for another, people are able to hold contraries in their heads simultaneously-a feat that is reassuring in itself, since it is one of the things that distinguishes men from machines. Indeed, man tends to search out such distinctions even as he endows his machines with increasing sophistication, as if to make sure that his evolution is no slower than that of his creations...
...Since 1900, 10 players have struck out more than 300 batters in a season. Take one point for each flame thrower named. A bonus of 3 if you can name the first post-1900 pitcher to accomplish this feat...
Stepping into that political quicksand, the adroit Senate Majority Leader is attempting a most difficult feat. Baker is deftly challenging the economic beliefs of a President from his own party, while trying to preserve party unity. After leading Senate Republicans into solid support of Reagan's budget and tax policies last year, he is backing their resistance this year but trying to channel it to achieve a constructive compromise with the President. All the while, Baker is struggling to prevent chaotic fragmentation in a Congress in which undisciplined procedures and election-year insecurities work strongly against cooperative action on behalf...
...whimsy. But Travels to the Enu adds up to far more than a tour de force. It takes true stamina to be so profoundly lost. After all these years on the road, Lind is no more bitter and no less funny than when he started, an impressive feat given the course of history in the meantime. His mind may swarm with hoofed and steaming demons like a phantasmagoric painting by Pieter Bruegel, but he can still grin at the bared fangs of his own beasts. He has not become a beast...
...Pennypacker resident's championship feat was even more remarkable in light of the fact that Blodgett only has a seven-and-a-half-meter platform, and since coming to Cambridge. Watson has only spent two weeks training on a ten-meter board...