Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unification of the American Republics against totalitarian political and economic penetration would have been a big diplomatic feat in any period. It was doubly impressive in view of traditional Latin-American fear of "Yankee imperialism," that Communists and Nazis labored desperately to keep alive. Agreement on the fate of threatened European colonies in the Western Hemisphere was a diplomatic achievement for future textbooks. It was more impressive in view of the legend that democracies cannot act fast...
...week, of whipping together the Southern command out of tens of thousands of exhausted men who were landed back in England, scattered at different ports, when Germany was expected to follow them across the Channel at any moment, was called "the major feat of organization in British Army history...
...based on the supposition that if a group of down-at-lip jazzbabies suddenly began swinging such melodies as Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, a Chopin Nocturne, and Mendelssohn's violin Concerto in E Minor, their daring would astound and conquer the musical world. Such a feat bowls over Amelia Cornell (Olivia de Havilland), who has a violin scholarship in a conservatory and at first explains that she will hear no music that is not "classical." When Amelia in turn bowls over the conservatory's goatish old patron (Charles Winninger), his son, and the dignified young manager...
...years from now, Dizzy Dean will probably be remembered as one of the great pitchers of the 20th Century. In his first five years with the St. Louis Cardinals he averaged 24 victories a year. His 17 strikeouts in one game (in 1933) still stands as a four-star feat in modern baseball. But to this generation, Dizzy Dean, "a man of a few thousand words," may be better remembered for his performances off the field than...
Uppermost in everyone's mind was whether or not mustachioed little Wilbur Shaw, driving the same Italian-made Maserati with which he won the race last year, could win his third 500-a feat that had been accomplished only once (by Lou Meyer, now retired). If he could, he would become the first driver to win twice in succession one of the most punishing sport events...