Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conqueror of Mount Everest, New Zealand's beekeeping Sir Edmund Hillary, was again planning to get above it all in the high Himalayas. Grubstaked with a tidy $200,000 from Chicago Publisher Bailey Howard (World Book Encyclopedia), Sir Edmund will attempt the most grueling mountaineering feat ever tried-to climb hazardous Mount Makalu (27,790 ft. and the world's fifth highest peak) without benefit of oxygen equipment. To prepare for the endeavor, Hillary and the other climbers plan to winter at 20,000 ft. Along the way Sir Edmund hopes to bump into an Abominable Snowman (TIME...
...even observed except by special, remotely controlled devices. By ingenuity and careful engineering, Dr. Weinberg's staff managed to tame this lethal brew. His report proudly announced that "the reactor cell has been sealed with the circulating pumps running uninterruptedly for 1,600 hours (67 days), a feat which begins to approach the longest uninterrupted runs of any power reactor...
...came other names familiar to the cold war, and the news they made was dramatic evidence of freedom's vital toughness on many fronts. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, challenger for Man of the Year, led his Conservative Party to a crushing third straight election victory, an unprecedented feat; in booming Britain his triumph buried the socialist dogma of the 59-year-old Labor Party as an effective political force. Under Konrad Adenauer, Man of the Year in 1953, the resurgent economic strength of free Germany posed such intolerable comparisons that Communism tripped from threat to entreaty...
...Wisdom of the West, by Bertrand Russell. The peppery old sage pulls off a prodigious feat of analysis, narrative and condensation by fitting a history of Western philosophy into 320 pages...