Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Awori garners his triple, he will become the first trackman in Madison Square Garden history to accomplish such a feat. Only one man has ever before scored dash-hurdles double in the Garden. This was Hayes Jones in the 1960 New York Athletic Club meet...
Soviet scientists have not yet taught shrimps to whistle, but Radio Moscow last week reported an even more fantastic feat. Geologists in northern Siberia, it recounted breathlessly, dug up a pair of salamanders that had been frozen for 5,000 years, thawed them out and fed them berries and mosquitoes from their hands. One of the prehistoric newts (tritons) scampered happily about for three weeks before it died; it was then bottled and sent to a Moscow University laboratory. Its comrade lived for several months in a museum...
...Except for the dive and the short 50-yard sprint, freestyler Abramson and the versatile Pringle swam alternately in six consecutive events in the center of the meet. To give the two as much rest as possible, Crimson swimmers intentionally false-started at least four times, but the endurance feat alone was a remarkable...
...high jump, Jack Spitzberg leaped 6 ft. 3 1/2 in., his lifetime best. Spitzberg had also won the G.B.I. jump the night before. Chris Ohiri duplicated this feat in the broad jump, and set a new Dartmouth field house record on Saturday with a leap...
Midcult, Macdonald believes, is spreading like a "tepid ooze" through American culture. It showed up in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, in which the vivid language of the King James version was pruned away to make easier reading-a feat comparable to "taking apart Westminster Abbey to make Disneyland out of the fragments." Similarly, the Third Edition of Webster's International Dictionary discarded the label "erroneous" for misuse of a word, sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter...