Word: feat
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...agricultural output has risen by an average of 3% annually since 1953. Even though the diet remains starchy and the nation's overburdened and inefficient distribution system produces periodic shortages of everything from pork to potatoes, per capita food consumption has nonetheless more than doubled since 1951, a feat unmatched by any other advanced nation. Industrial growth has also been heady; the Soviet gross national product, a mere 40% of the U.S.'s in 1955, is 60% today...
Every other day somebody does something that has never been done before. Or else repeats some improbable feat-only faster, deeper, higher, with different equipment or at a different age. The act of dying is one of the very few human activities that do not stir up competitive fever among people. "After Sir Edmund Hillary," says Boston Globe Columnist M.R. Montgomery, "you can climb Everest on a pogo stick without attracting envy or admiration." But, in fact, once the notion of climbing a mountain by pogo stick has been conceived, it would not be surprising if somebody...
...extended military metaphor is Solzhenitsyn's own. Scarcely any other image is large enough to encompass the feat of a writer who consistently outwitted and outmaneuvered Nikita Khrushchev, the KGB and the Soviet literary establishment in the pursuit of his mission: to bear witness to the Gulag before his countrymen and the world...
...Crimson raquetmen accomplished the feat in gut-wrenching fashion, first eking out a narrow upset over Princeton, then swinging past favored Penn and archrival Yale to capture the crown...
...carried there by major rivers. The chances of getting all 18 countries that border the Mediterranean to agree on methods of controlling pollution seemed remote. But five years ago, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) decided to try. Last week at a conference in Athens that climaxed a remarkable feat of scientific diplomacy, the U.N. team won the approval of all but one of the Mediterranean nations (xenophobic Albania) for a treaty outlining ways to clean...