Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there remains cause for U.S. pondering. Despite Cooper's feat, Russia still owns the most spectacular space achievements. Last year two cosmonauts simultaneously swirled in space in a fine exhibition of launch timing-and both orbited longer than Cooper. Almost certainly, another Soviet space extravaganza is ahead. But Russia has never done much more than tell the world of its space successes-via verbal reports-and last week's Cape Canaveral launching was seen by millions overseas via Telstar television. It was a display of free world candor and confidence that undercut the post facto reports of Soviet...
...take an even more remarkable feat of "identification," "What voluptuous thrill may not shake a fly, when she at last discovers the one particular leaf, or carrion, or bit of dung, that out of all the world can stimulate her ovipositor? Does not the discharge then seem to her the only fitting thing...
Professor Reginald R. Isaacs, who spoke on behalf of the faculty, said that Miss McNamara is "a tradition." He added that "45 years of dealing with students and faculty must be regarded as an extraordinary feat of sheer mental and physical endurance...
...etiquette in which the offender was forced to drink nearly two pints of beer in 30 seconds or pay for it. He learned to drink without swallowing and could put down a sconce in ten seconds. "So far as I know," he says, "no one has ever whacked that feat...
...dictionary was a prodigious ("amazing, astonishing, portentous, enormous") feat, a one-man job ("a low word now much in use") comprising 2,300 folio pages of definitions and examples accomplished in nine years (from 1746 to 1755), with the help of only six copyists. Only a fopdoodle ("a fool") or a slubberdegullion ("a paltry, dirty, sorry wretch") would deny the greatness of the work, and only one who had carried it out had the right to define a lexicographer (as Johnson did in the dictionary) as "a harmless drudge." Privately, he was not so humble. As he told his Boswell...