Word: feat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zurich and Paris exchanges. Even before the market opened in New York, the news of Granville's signal had spread along Wall Street. Said Newton Zinder, a first vice president at E.F. Hutton: "It was like Paul Revere's ride." As stocks tumbled, Granville proudly pronounced his feat "a hole...
...shuttle up, into orbit and then safely back to earth on a 2.8-mile-long landing strip at the Kennedy Space Center or another at Edwards Air Force Base in California?or even, in an emergency, one at the White Sands Missile Test Range in New Mexico. Fulfilling this feat cannot be breezily taken for granted. One sobering fact is that the Columbia, unlike every other U.S. spacecraft, will be launched without having undergone unmanned test flights in space; to bring it back alive, the astronauts must go along on the very first trip. If only for that reason...
That Reagan beat such a man is a feat of circumstances as much as of personal strength. Right-wingers like to crow that the country veered sharply to the right when it turned to Reagan, but the probable truth of the matter is that most of the country had simply stepped firmly to the right of center. As conservatives sensed, the country had been an incubative conservative since the late '60s. Only Nixon's muck-up could have delayed their eventual birth and triumph. Sick and tired of the vast, clogged federal machine; sick and tired of being broke...
...year slapped a brusque eviction notice on President Herbert Hoover and handed New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt a ticket to what turned into the longest White House tenure in history. It awarded triumph to Amelia Earhart as the first woman to match Charles A. Lindbergh's feat of a solo flight across the Atlantic. 1932 also brought cruel tragedy to Lindbergh and his wife: their infant child was kidnaped and murdered -the first of the century's repetitious proofs that even heroes are not immune to lethal violence...
...choice of Raymond James Donovan, 50, to be Secretary of Labor probably owes less to his business acumen than to his accomplishments as a political fund raiser. By Donovan's own account, he raised more than $600,000 for Reagan in the past 18 months, a feat that vaulted him over the heads of more veteran G.O.P. figures to the top of the New Jersey Reagan-Bush campaign committee...