Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden sabre-rattling stance of the Students for a Democratic Society in protesting "British inaction to uphold democracy" is an astounding feat of double-think. Can anything be more rash, ill-considered, and detrimental to the cause of peace? The SDS admittedly does not profess to be a pacifist group. Nonetheless, the demand for immediate recourse to military action is hardly the initial response to be expected of a body whose origins lie in the sense of moral outrage at the holocaust in Southeast Asia. Surely the SDS is not merely attempting to counter-act the imputation of cowardice...
Such tactics quickly earned Nyerere the title of "the god with the magic eye," also brought in observers from such distant monolithic states as Russia and Hungary to watch Nyerere's Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party pull off a far more impressive feat: free, contested elections...
...biggest surprises, however, have been in the offensive line. During the final period against Holy Cross, Harvard drove for two touchdowns in 18 plays without a single pass or yard lost. Such a feat requires solid blocking on the line, as well as nifty running from Bobby Leo and efficient blocking from Tom Choquette and Wally Grant...
...miles as a traveling salesman on his way to a business fortune before going into politics. But now, what with the traffic and cloverleafs and all, says New Jersey's former Republican Senator Albert W. Hawkes, 86, "this driving is getting to be an engineering feat." The Senator is "perfectly able physically" to perform the feat, he says, but just a little tired of it. Chauffeured over to Trenton's Department of Motor Vehicles, Hawkes turned in his driver's license forever...
...economic squeeze between the mounting costs of the war and the Administration's ever more ambitious domestic programs. Russell's dismay even caused him to mix his metaphors. "If we are able to have both butter and guns," he pronounced, "we will have accomplished the feat of having our cake and eating it too, which no government has heretofore been able to achieve...