Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Eisenhower accomplished this all-important feat by example, cajolery and compulsion. He told his officers, U.S. and British, that they had to get along. He then saw to it that they did so or left his service. First in Britain and then in North Africa, U.S. and British ground, air and naval men have worked, eaten, drunk and fought together as one service, to an extent and in a fashion never dreamed of in World War I. In the heat of combat, U.S. and British field officers go out of their way to criticize themselves, compliment one another...
Keeping Tom Waller away from bars is a difficult feat. His capacity for both food & drink is vast. A Waller breakfast may include six pork chops. It is when he is seated at the piano that he most relishes a steady supply of gin. When his right-hand man, brother-in-law Louis Rutherford, enters with a tray of glasses, Tom will cry, "Ah, here's the man with the dream wagon! I want it to hit me around my edges and get to every pound...
...Feat and Defeat. There was fine stuff in it, in great ill-digested, nervous chunks. But For Whom the Bell Tolls was not, by the kindest stretching of critical standards, a good picture. Nor was it reliable entertainment. Nor was the likelihood that it would pay its way more than a string of subjunctives.* It was, on a grand scale, a defeat of Hollywood by Hollywood. Censorship defeated it, and timidity; heavy investment defeated it, and pretentiousness; the very expectation of the public defeated it; and the desperate, driven, split, muddled desire to make a great picture and a great...
...lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...
Which is probably as great a feat as Bob Bissett's trick of thinking about his marketing cases and his girl at the same time and solving the Harvard Coop case once and for all by asserting dogmatically that the only way to sell Allen Hats is to install many mirrors in the Coop because that's the way his girl likes to buy her hats . . . a nice trick...