Word: feated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other son Junior (Steve McQueen) is a rodeo rider with a single obsession: to ride an especially violent bull, a feat that will spell his father's long shadow. Incredibly, Junior triumphs, buys Ace a one-way ticket to Australia and then blows town, letting his father look for a new frontier while Brother Curly plows the old one under...
...British experiment could have far-reaching implications. If a similar feat of genetic engineering can now be used on ordinary soil bacteria, high-yield grains will gain an important new source of nitrogen, thereby greatly diminishing the need for fertilizers...
Derek Bok has spent most of the last year learning about his new job--how best to deal with Harvard's myriad constituencies while offending no one and still managing to get things done. It didn't take him long to discover that this latter feat is one of wild imagination...
Such was the talk inspired by Jack Nicklaus as he won the Masters golf tournament for the fourth time, a feat previously accomplished only by Arnold Palmer. Nicklaus' success in the Masters (which boosted his earnings to $134,473 so far this year, and to $1,517,637.19 for his ten-year pro career) was notable not merely for where it left him-firmly established as the world's top golfer-but for where it might lead him. For this year the 32-year-old Golden Bear is unabashedly in quest of golf's sweetest...
...with understanding, and a talent in saying things simply, but not tritely. With the help of Eric Kaz, who plays fine back-up paino and harmonica on Smither's Don't It Drag On, he performs Dylan's "Down in the Flood" more excitingly than Dylan, a usually impossible feat...