Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's: "The first time I cranked and fired the 75 ... I couldn't hit my hat. Cranking the blooming thing is like patting your head and rubbing your stomach. ... But after a little practice I got better ... at the finish hit 10 out Of 10 - a feat I would have announced as impossible...
...waddle about her large Tampa estate every few days, to climb stairs once or twice daily. "The surprising thing," says Willoughby, "is that anyone her size should be able to get about at all, since every movement, considering the weight of the body and limbs, became veritably a feat of strength." He concludes that her muscles must have been much stronger than the average woman...
...east water voyage through America's cold, difficult, twisting Northwest Passage. Landing on the Atlantic coast last week, two and a quarter years after they left the Pacific, the men neither expected, asked for, nor got leave. Sergeant Henry Larsen, their leader, brushed off compliments on his extraordinary feat with the remark that other trips had been harder...
Accomplishing the unusual feat of scoring a touchdown on the opening kickoff which they themselves kicked to Dudley, the Winthrop House football team went on to swamp the Ramblers 18 to 0, while Kirkland was blanking Eliot 6 to 0 in the first two games of the 1942 schedule yesterday afternoon...
...rhetorical promises will not accomplish this feat of winning China by words. Definite guarantees of this selfsame economic security and political independence must be components of any treaty that will invite China's confidence. The road to victory requires more than one step in the right direction...