Word: feat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Browns lost, of course. The final score: 30-7. Better this way, I suppose, than to lose on a length-of-the-field, overtime comeback, a feat the Broncos performed in the 1986 AFC championship game; or to lose on a fumble inside the five-yd. line, a crime the Browns committed against Denver in last year's league championship...
...Monopoly championship, defeating 29 players from 28 countries. His final challenger: 13-year-old Ken Shabtay, an Israeli. Hiyakuta was breathless after collecting his last dollar in the 2 1/4-hour final. "Most pleased!" he declared. "I really wanted to win. I was determined." His title is no mean feat: the game has now been translated into 19 languages, and 100 million copies have been sold. Hiyakuta, a trading-company employee from Chiba City, took home a cash prize of $15,140 -- the amount of play money that comes with a Monopoly...
Despite their differences, Jackson says privately that he understands Dukakis' need to play it cool with him on occasion. And despite the Democrats' increasing gloom, Jackson seems content. Why not? He knows he will be around no matter what happens on Nov. 8. If Dukakis departs in de-feat, Jackson will be the largest figure on the Democratic horizon...
...giant reptile and thus unleashes a pestilence on England's Peak district, courtesy of Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe). In her worship of a humongous subterranean worm, this venomous vamp sprouts fangs, spits at crucifixes, sups on the locals and searches for a sacrificial virgin -- no mean feat, since Russell has set his story in the 1980s...
...were moving back and forth from pictures to actual buildings. We had to extrapolate the building and come up with a design. It was a very difficult feat," says Martha Cassel, a second year GSD student who worked with Burns. "It was an unusual combination of art history and studio work," she says...