Word: feated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limping home on the surface at a speed of 3 knots, under the escort of a Soviet cruiser flying a salvage flag. A telltale dent marked the spot where the submarine had grazed the bottom of the Kitty Hawk while trying to pass underneath. That is no easy feat; the huge carrier draws 50 feet of water...
...houses and a shopping mall along the nearby Street of the Jews. But when ancient column stubs were found, from both Roman and Byzantine times, Architects Peter Bugod and Esther Niv-Kren-del kept redesigning the prizewinning project to keep pace with the digging. The result is a stunning feat of urban design. Shops have opened in the ancient arcades. The great columns lend drama to the mall. Above this living museum are new houses. Nearly 2,000 years are linked by light that filters down from shafts in the town-house courts to the Roman pavement some...
That is quite a feat in a world in which most new housing from Alaska to Zanzibar looks distressingly alike...
...Minneapolis bill, and that is what made it so audacious-and perverse. It manages the amazing feat of restoring censorship, which after all is a form of coercion, while at the same time claiming not to restrict rights but expand them...
...were neglecting him, he courted Stalin and threatened to send French forces to the Soviet front. Shut out of the planning for Dday, he retaliated by creating his own civil administration for liberated France. In the end, the general extracted just about everything he wanted from the Allies, a feat that won him the enmity of F.D.R. and the grudging admiration of Churchill. When someone suggested that De Gaulle was un grand homme, Churchill sputtered for many colleagues, "A great man? Why, he's selfish, he's arrogant, he thinks he's the center of the universe...