Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...follow her around. She is the hottest performer on the ladies' pro tour. Last week she sank a 12-ft. birdie putt on the last hole to win the $11,500 Shreveport, La., Kiwanis Club Open and walk off with her third victory in a row, a feat topped by only one other female pro in history: Mickey Wright, who twice won four straight -and lost to Carol by one stroke last week...
...tremendous drives, Wood, who turned pro in the mid-'20s,' finished second, time after time, in the game's biggest tournaments. In 1941, he finally made it, defeating Byron Nelson for the Masters title; two months later, he beat Denny Shute to win the Open, a feat that earned him a place in golf's Hall of Fame...
WHILE the world's attention was--and is--focused on the war in Vietnam, the Presidential campaign in the United States, and student revolt practically everywhere, a group of unremarkable men were gathered in Stockholm to engineer what may be a remarkable feat. They were delegates from the nations whose combined economic strength holds the International Monetary Fund together, and they were assembled to put the finishing touches on an economic device that could lead to an effective world government...
...these, however, are petty considerations compared to the sheer feat of performing that much Bach--any musician's ordeal by combat--on one program. Almost consistently competent on a professional level, the combined efforts of Buswell and Valenti frequently achieved real excitement as well. Hedonist or intellectual, that is as much as anyone...
...Churchill. Though the part is essentially a great caricature of Churchill, Colicos turns the role into a realm. He achieves one of those memorable personifications where the actor imperceptibly fuses artifice and reality. He dominates the stage with feral tenacity, and there is an uncannily mnemonic effect in his feat of physical resemblance. The pudgy hands thrust the walking stick forward like an advance scout probing enemy territory; the pouty lips nurse the huge cigar; the gruff, lisping voice rasps out even cadences like waves beating on the shore. Many of the words he is given to say, however, seem...