Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most impressive feat of the night was scored by a lean, relaxed broad jumper from Laurel, Miss, named Ralph Boston. Delighted with the feel of the runway, Boston could hardly wait to begin jumping, remained undismayed even after spiking his knee so badly on an early try that he needed three stitches. Three times he flew over 26 ft. Then, arms flailing, Boston soared 26 ft. 11¼ in. to break by 3 in. the world record of Jesse Owens, a landmark of track that had stood for 25 years while every other standard was crumbling away. "Jesse said...
Catapulted into the political big time by the spectacular feat of unseating an incumbent Democratic Governor in a year when most Republican candidates got roundly trounced, Rockefeller began showing the unmistakable flush of presidential fever. And since Richard Nixon already towered up as the almost certain Republican presidential nominee in 1960, Rockefeller's presidential hopes inevitably made Nixon a competitor, apart from any disagreements on national issues...
Navy placed two boats in the final, an unprecedented feat, and the first boat defeated the Crimson by half a length. A determined challenge in the final 200 meters fell short, and the Crimson was eliminated from the Olympics...
...adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat: Bear not false witness; let the lie Have time on its own wings to fly: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition. The sum of all is, thou shalt love If anybody, God above: At any rate, shalt never labour More than thyself to love thy neighbour...
Cooper's letters and journals deal largely with the seven years (1826-33) during which he lived it up in England and on the Continent. The mountainous, two-volume compilation-a bluestocking's tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty...