Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kopit has revealed no startling point of view that seems original or significant. His achievement so far lies in his technical excellence, in an ability to construct characters and plots that are credible, and in a talent for speaking in a lyrical and pleasing voice. That is no mean feat...
...much of the credit for the young scholar's enormous feat of learning must go to Denver's top-ranked school system. Justin Brierly, coordinator of college counseling for Denver schools, summed it up in a way that other schoolmen might well note: "Bill had the natural talent, and our system has two things to offer: early detection of gifted students and a suitable and intensified program to provide them with full development...
...Shackleton conceived a scheme of sailing to the Atlantic coast of Antarctica and sledging across the continent via the Pole to the Pacific. He called it "the largest and most striking of all journeys." The Royal Geographical Society was cool to the idea-as well it might be. The feat was not achieved until 43 years later, when Britain's Sir Vivian Fuchs last year took 99 days to travel the route, using heated tractors and reconnaissance airplanes...
Last year De Henriquez got government permission to house his mushrooming stockpile in three abandoned army barracks in southeast Rome. To move it all from Trieste is fast becoming a logistical feat worthy of Hannibal himself. Last week his rented Roman villa was stuffed with incoming crates. He planned to fly some of his airplanes down under their own power. His chief problem: how to man and sail his naval destroyer around Italy, and to find a place to moor it when it arrived...
Chen's feat was the latest product of the ten-year athletic program launched by Red China's Mao Tse-tung with the avowed intention of producing citizens "capable of more and harder work in China's socialist reconstruction." Red China's muscled minions, according to the Peking press, "resolutely pledged themselves to overcome all difficulties and all individualist ideas existing in their innermost minds, and strive to become the vanguard on the physical-culture front." Chen himself gave due credit to patriotic inspiration. "During the jerk event, I was somewhat nervous," said he, "but just...