Word: feat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clock-tower memorial at headquarters, the S.A.S.'s tribute to its fallen heroes. Alive or dead, commandos of this elite unit of the British army remain unknown to the world at large. Even when the heroes of the Princes Gate rescue raid are decorated for their feat, the ceremony will be kept secret...
Last week Reines astonished colleagues with word that neutrinos may not be so simple after all. Returning to the same nuclear facility in South Carolina where he had performed his detection feat, he found that the erstwhile ghosts do indeed seem to have substance. Not much even on the nuclear scale, perhaps only one ten-thousandth of the mass of the electron, but big enough to stir the world of physics. If his results are right, they may help explain the sun's puzzling behavior and perhaps hint at the universe's ultimate fate...
...have forgotten (amnesia perhaps?) the basic requirement for a successful concert, that is, hiring a band that people will pay money to see. The choice of a trivial, second rate group of musicians to headline a major concert is baffling. Why, when Brown can attract acts like Little Feat and Elvis Costello, do we have to settle for a nowhere act like Pousette-Dart Band. (Who knows who we will have next time. Petula Clark? Or maybe even Sean Cassidy...
Although she was a novice in world affairs, the triumph of her first year was a foreign policy feat. Britain, to great acclaim, ended the seven-year-old Rhodesian civil war and brought majority rule to Zimbabwe in free and surprisingly fair elections. Observes an acerbic old-line British diplomat: "In foreign policy she has proved to be very wise by leaving it to [Foreign Secretary Lord] Carrington. But he couldn't have done it without her backing." Not coincidentally, Thatcher's worst performance came when Carrington, preoccupied with Rhodesia, was away from her side. At the European...
...Ironically, the main support for environmental art has come from within the art world itself. Artists creating works which were deliberately too big, too awkward, or too temporary to be bought, sold and exhibited on the gallery/museum scene were offered museum shows and commissions throughout the world. By some feat of ingenuity, the masterminds of the art business managed to make the unmarketable marketable...