Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some time around March 12, the day before the 14th anniversary of his victory at Dienbienphu, General Giap seems to have come to the conclusion that he would not be able to repeat his earlier feat, and he stopped sending replacements to Khe Sanh. Then, on March 22, he ordered one of his two battered divisions around Khe Sanh to withdraw...
...supple as a willow wand. Last February Mrs. Evelyn M. Anderson, 60, a Glendale, Calif., housewife, boated a 353-lb. black marlin on 12-lb. line off Piñas Bay, Panama-thereby breaking a year-old record held by none other than her husband. The feat qualified her for membership in sport fishing's most prestigious organization: the Ten-to-One Club, started in 1960 by the Miami Beach Rod and Reel Club and limited to "those anglers who, unaided, set the hooks, fight and bring to gaff a fish weighing ten times the wet test...
...takes place April 27. Princeton, the favorite to take the Ivy title, will be here. Earlier this season the Tigers lost to Navy, a perennial national power, but only in the last three minutes of the game; and they tied Maryland, 6-6, which Nicosia described as "an amazing feat...
Parker duplicated Harper's feat by nabbing top-point honors in the competitive A-division with 115. He also soundly beat Navy in his last race to preserve Harvard's second position...
...small group of scientists crowded into a cave in southern Germany for one last attempt at starting a chain reaction in their uranium pile. It was far too late to produce an atomic bomb that could help the fatherland. But the scientists-unaware that the U.S. had accomplished the feat more than two years before-were determined that Germany should produce the world's first nuclear chain reaction before the war ended. Their experiment, like the entire German A-bomb program, ended in failure...