Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Still, the fact remains that 1500 people and a large number of cameras did witness the accomplishment of the feat. But this should not upset us too much. Remember that Gerald Heard, in his brilliant book Is Another World Watching?, proved conclusively that flying saucers are manned by insects. Remember too that scientists have again and again proven that the bumblebee cannot fly; "eppur' si muove" ("and still it moves"), as Galileo reputedly said in another connection...
...down to plan their assault. They had picked a formidable foe: the continent's highest mountain, 20,320 ft. of rock, ice and swirling snow that Alaskan Indians call "the Great One." McKinley had been climbed 13 times since 1913, but never by the precipitous southern route, a feat considered the greatest pioneering climb remaining in North America...
...other sickniks-some newcomers, some oldtimers with brand-new syndromes-are cleaning up not only in nightclubs but regularly shudder onto the TV screen, and are even invading the record field; Inside Shelley Berman has been near the top of the LP bestseller list for two months, a remarkable feat for a nonmusical disk. And sociologists, both professional and amateur, see in the sick comedians a symptom of the 20th century's own sickness. Says one: "It's like the last days of Rome-all this horror and mayhem in humor...
...dead of night, vandals sneaked into a Bridgeport, Conn, cemetery, made off with a marble statue of "General" Tom Thumb (1838-83), whom P. T. Barnum glorified as the most exhibited midget of all time. Swiping the grave marker was quite a feat: the stone Thumb stood atop a 3O-ft. pedestal, weighs...
...mighty swings of his 33-oz. bat. His fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated the toughest in the league for home-run hitters-no team has ever hit more than three home runs there in a single game...