Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venus (see SCIENCE). Politely, Nikita Khrushchev thanked John Kennedy, and hoped that the two nations could some day explore space together. Nonetheless, the Russians touched off their newest giant skyrocket with a propaganda torch, highlighting the sad fact that the U.S. has no rocket engines to match the feat-and is not likely to have them for four or five years. Even the orbiting last week of two relatively pint-sized Discoverer satellites (XX and XXI) served to dramatize the U.S. lag in the big boost...
...British scientist reported last week about an event that might seem unreportable: the birth of the universe. Cambridge University Radio Astronomer Martin Ryle performed the feat by taking a look at part of the universe as it existed 8 billion years...
...United States is to accomplish a feat like the Soviet rocket shot at Venus, the government must display a sense of urgency in space research comparable to the emphasis put on development of military weapons," Arthur E. Lilley, associate professor of Astronomy, declared...
...trance, Orne observed, is the famous two chair experiment. In this experiment the subject, supported by chairs at head and feet, attains a position rigid enough to sustain the weight of another person. However, Orne performed the same demonstration with a volunteer in the waking state, showing that the "feat" is within the capacity of the normal, healthy person...
...FANNY." Some of his schemes are ordinary (he scattered sawdust and cowboys under the Destry marquee), and some are bizarre; this week he plans to send half a dozen men about Manhattan wearing berets and carrying green pissoirs plastered with red signs for Irma La Douce. His most publicized feat occurred when Look Back in Anger seemed tottery and Merrick paid a dizzy young woman $250 to climb up over the footlights and slap Actor Kenneth Haigh's face because, she screamed, he was such a mean man. (Merrick tells the story well, and undoubtedly it actually happened...