Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four More Years? Hagerty's most striking feat was in getting out word of the operation's successful completion. Outside the hospital, newsmen were still watching the vague figures of the surgeons through a glass brick window when White House Transportation Officer Dewey Long summoned them inside to the conference room. Hagerty was on the phone from the operating floor, ready to dictate the results through Long. Newsmen-whose papers in some cases were holding their presses for the bulletin-had the news at 4:55 a.m., three minutes after the operation ended, and 16 minutes before...
Judith Hearne is an old maid whose soul drifts like flotsam on a landlocked sea of Irish malice. It is the impressive feat of First Novelist Brian Moore, an Irish-born Montreal newspaperman, to compel the reader to follow the course of this human driftwood to its last miserable beach. Author Moore believes with G. K. Chesterton of his native city that...
...Show. In Des Moines, Federal revenooers socked Barmaid Ruth Shepler with a claim for $44,693.84 in back taxes, insisted that her feat of balancing two to four glasses of beer on her breasts as she goes about her work constitutes "entertainment," thus subjects her tavern to the 20% U.S. cabaret...
...other runner, a faster-than-four-minute mile would be fast enough, but not for Australia's John Landy. For him, the swift figures have been no sure formula for success. He holds the world's record (3:58), but he has also accomplished the improbable feat of being beaten twice while breaking the four-minute barrier (by Dr. Roger Bannister two years ago in Vancouver, B.C.. by Aussie Jim Bailey a fortnight ago in Los Angeles). Last week, at the West Coast Relays in Fresno, Calif., John Landy shaded four minutes for the sixth time...
Ensign Wilson's feat impressed even Uruguayans, themselves no mean trenchermen. Montevideo's daily La Manarta called him a "hero of the cold...