Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose American credentials could not be questioned: Tammany, sachem (pronounced say-chem) of the Lenni-Lenape (Delaware Indians), from whom legends glowed like beams from an August moon. Tammany (it was said) invented the canoe, discovered corn, beans, crabapples and tobacco (for use in destroying fleas). His most heroic feat was in wrestling the Evil Spirit for 50 days. Finally Tammany upended the Evil Spirit with a hip lock and tried to roll him into the Ohio River. But an immense rock stood in the way, and Tammany failed to conquer evil...
...political position immeasurably. People are disposed to credit him with sincere and decent instincts, and if he accomplished nothing that is visible, at least he managed to extricate himself from a conference with the Russians without getting trimmed. In view of the performance of his predecessors, this is a feat that is not to be despised...
...nothing left for anyone else." This may prove to be the broad outline of Geneva. Americans and Russians find it easy to jettison one set of principles and try another. British politicians, particularly British Socialists, are not so adaptable. Yet, if we read the meaning of Geneva aright, the feat must be undertaken...
...Tengku was educated in England, and returning there in 1947 for a belated law degree, managed to get named as a corespondent in an English divorce case, a feat which did him no harm with his electorate. The Tengku stumped the country tirelessly on foot and by car, preaching the Alliance Party's program of complete independence in four years, and the "Malayanizing" of the public services, i.e., kicking out the British officials. But the British are not unduly worried. For all his talk, the Tengku stands for a conservative capitalist economy and the encouragement of foreign investment...
...union of some 1,000,000 Methodists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and members of the Reformed Church into the Church of South India in 1947 was a notable feat of theological tightrope-walking, as well as the first major attempt to unite Episcopal and non-Episcopal Protestant churches. The Church of England, which claims that its bishops are successors of Christ's apostles, insisted that all ordinations after the union be performed by Episcopal bishops, but agreed that no reordination would be required of those who had already been ordained in non-Episcopal churches. Said the Canterbury-York report...