Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after Hoppe's feat, Masako Katsura, who grew up in a suburban Tokyo billiard parlor run by her brother-in-law, won the Japanese women's straight-rail championship. Then 16, she soon caught the eye of Kinrey Matsuyama, the Japanese Hoppe, who was runner-up, on his last U.S. visit in 1936, for the three-cushion title. Contrary to the slanderous old saw, Masako's proficiency at billiards seemed to Matsuyama a sign of anything but a misspent youth. Coached by him to perfection in the basic and fancy three-cushion shots (see cut), Masako...
...whole movie, in fact, is a winning battle against cliches and stock characterizations. For every consequential character is either very good or thoroughly evil. Tom Brown does one outstanding feat of heroism and pluck after another. Dr. Arnold exhibits wisdom, patience, and understanding in an endless succession of situations. And Flashman, the bully, spends hardly a moment without doing something nasty, sadistic, and depraved. Yet the film moves along quickly, with humor and charm...
...just footed a large part of the bill for the greatest war in history. He is riding the crest of the greatest boom in history. In 1952, he is about to attempt the greatest feat of all. He is going to give up $62.6 billion, more in a single year than the U.S. Government collected in the whole leaf-raking decade of the '30s-and almost a third again as much as in the most expensive year of World War II. Of this $62.6 billion, almost half ($29.3 billion) will come from the individual income tax, not an American...
...argument was: marriage, in its happiness, is grand and simple; nothing should impair its dignity. Therefore, divorce in its unhappiness should be simple and grand. Everything should be done to support its dignity. It was an extraordinary feat for a Private Member to put such an important law on the statute book. Many look upon it as Herbert's chief success...
...hairpin turn. The knowing crowd was yelling itself hoarse; no one had ever seen anything quite like it. Andy's time: 1:03.4, a full two seconds faster than any of the world's best women skiers had been able to do all day. The feat was comparable to a middle-distance runner breaking the world record for the mile by more than seven seconds. Despite her first-heat spill, Andy had become the first U.S. skier ever to win two Olympic gold medals. Her winning margin, over Germany's Ossi Reichert: eight-tenths of a second...