Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Esposito flipped in a 20-ft. wrist shot to become the first N.H.L. player ever to score 100 points in regular season play. Boston Garden fans responded with a 15-minute standing ovation, showering him with hats, programs, and even a pink brassiere. Three weeks after Esposito's feat, baby-faced Bobby Orr celebrated his 21st birthday by firing in a last-second goal against Chicago. That gave Boston a 5-5 tie and Orr his 21st goal of the season, breaking a 24-year-old record for defensemen...
...Johnson, Rick Frisbie, and captain Tom Nicosia. Munro noted that Johnson and Frisbie are both "unknown quantities" at this point, though both have good credentials. Nicosia, one of the top Crimson scorers the last two seasons, is captain for the second year in a row, a rare feat...
Willie D., of Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., has simply reduced the feat of record breaking to a routine. In one remarkable string of eight meets this season, he twice equaled the world indoor record for the 60-yd. hurdles and set new world marks...
Whitman, J. V. player for two years, stepped up to the varsity this year, and has compiled an outstanding 7-2 record to provide needed depth. A strong competitor. Whitmkan came up with strong come-from-behind victories against Williams and Navy, but was unable to perform the feat against Penn and Princeton...
Although the transplanting of a human heart is the most dramatic feat of today's surgery, it is not the most difficult. From the technical standpoint, implantation of a new lung is more delicate and complex. And it carries an even greater risk of failure because the basic function of the lung is to inhale air from outside the body, thus exposing it to infection by airborne microbes. Of ten human-lung transplants previously reported, most have failed within a few days, and all in less than a month...