Word: feated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, the star of James A. (for Addison) Baker III was at its zenith. Standing at Ronald Reagan's side in Tokyo, the 67th U.S. Treasury Secretary helped forge an agreement at the annual summit meeting for improved international economic cooperation. While Baker was accomplishing that feat, his aides in Washington were midwifing a tax bill in the U.S. Senate that became the basis for the most dramatic tax reform in more than 30 years...
...failure was nothing compared with the magnitude of the feat. For the first time, the Soviets successfully tested the brand-new Energia, a 220- ft. rocket capable of thrusting more than 100-ton payloads into orbit, at least four times that of the U.S. space shuttle's orbiter. A Soviet TV commentator declared in a post-launch videotape that the new rocket could lift into space "the blocks from which cities will be built." Even U.S. observers were impressed. "It's the most powerful rocket in the world -- ever," said James Oberg, a Houston-based expert on Soviet space ventures...
...their amazement, the sample's resistance began to drop sharply at a towering 93 K. Recalls Wu: "We < were so excited and so nervous that our hands were shaking. At first we were suspicious that it was an error." But a few days later he and Chu duplicated the feat in Houston and even bettered it by 5 degrees...
...classic feat of spending the night in Widener is commemorated by one who claims he actually did, and wrote it down for the edification of future generations. "I spent the night here. July '85. No shit," reads the desk...
...there is solid leadership in Co-Captains Martin Garcia and Ben Nye, as well as in another senior who has come back from a year off to sparkle--goalie Mike Bergmann. Last year, Crimson goalie Mark Vita was named first team All-Ivy. This year, Bergmann could duplicate feat...