Word: feated
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Understanding the Irish to the satisfaction of the Irish was no mean feat for a relatively unknown English politician who had spent virtually his entire career in the back corridors of parliamentary life. A former Scots Guards officer, Whitelaw was raised on his grandfather's estate in Scotland, sent to Winchester and Cambridge, where he "got his blue" in golf. At 55, he has a reserve of charm as large as his hulking, 220-lb. frame and a rumpled warmth about him. His suits never hang quite right, and his booming voice sometimes takes on a pained edge...
Harvard became only the fourth ECAC team in history to garner victories at St. Lawrence and Clarkson on consecutive nights. Boston University, Providence and Boston College each performed this feat in the past, but their task was easier than Harvard...
Both Coston and McCabe predict that Radcliffe's strength will lie in the relays this year. The team qualified four relays--two medley and two freestyle--at the national meet in Moscow, Idaho, last March and if all goes well, it hopes to accomplish that feat again this year...
Liberation was no small feat for the revolutionary African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, which mobilized opposition to Portuguese domination of the nation's blacks. The PAIGC freed Guinea-Bissau from the yoke of four centuries of Portuguese colonialism that continues to oppress Mozambique and Angola...
Avoiding Disaster. Although the details were still obscured by censorship, the bridgehead made by an Israeli armored force across the southern sector of the canal may rank as the most brilliant military feat in the country's short but tempestuous history. In the end, Egypt may well have agreed to a ceasefire because it realized that to continue fighting would lead to another disaster...