Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brusque Admiral Hennecke looked superciliously down his hawk's nose. His morale had just been boosted by award of the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross. "Hennecke performed a feat unique in the history of coastal defense," read his radioed citation. "He carried out an exemplary destruction of the port of Cherbourg...
...months ended March 31, has $6,862,156 tucked away to build postwar autos. Most important, the jeep designed by Willys and Army Ordnance (TIME, Nov. 3, 1941) has sold itself to the world. No one doubted that Charlie Sorensen intends to duplicate the feat of Big Bill Knudsen who was squeezed out of Ford in 1921. Knudsen went to General Motors, and by booming Chevrolet sales, stole such a vast chunk of the small-car market from Ford that the old man has never regained his supremacy...
...India, Major General Howard Davidson, commander of the Tenth Air Force, pinned "The Mailbag Cluster" on a message-center clerk. His feat: making "100 missions to & from the post office...
...After A.P.'s Correspondent Daniel De Luce got into Yugoslavia (TIME, Oct. 18) for a close-up of Tito's Partisans (a feat that won him a Pulitzer prize), the military had declared Tito-land out of bounds to newsmen. Two reporters (not A.P. men and not identified) had been arrested by Allied soldiers for trying to enter Yugoslavia. Correspondent De Luce, despite two official requests by Marshal Tito, had been refused authority to enter. De Luce had informed the A.P. that he had "the only travel order issued a correspondent by Tito, but using it would make...
Tommy Hitchcock played competitive polo for 23 years and was a ten-goal man for 16 of them-the greatest polo feat of all time. With Devereux Milburn, he accelerated the game. He turned what had traditionally been a defensive position (No. 3) into an aggressive one. He turned a short-passing game into a fast, hard, long-walloping one. He was a whirlwind at infighting, and probably the most powerful and accurate hitter of all time...