Word: feats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live coverage on the day the 101st Airborne took over at Central High, TV also scored a kind of integration feat-between the two major networks. For that morning, CBS's alert News Director John Day, an ex-managing editor (Dayton Daily News, Louisville Courier-Journal), had reserved the only circuit that can carry a telecast out of Little Rock. When NBC's News Director Bill McAndrew learned this, he telephoned Day and said hopefully: "This is bigger than both of us." Day agreed, and arranged to share CBS pickups with NBC. The CBS gesture proved...
...Dulles talks almost blithely of using tactical nuclear weapons both as a deterrent to aggression and a force to meet it. The only way to employ such weapons would be to have them already on the scene--a feat which would take a prophet to arrange--or to transport them there. The latter is made more difficult by the fact that transportation facilities have continually been cut in order to keep bomber and missile programs untouched. The former would require not only a sixth sense and an unparalleled intelligence agency, but also the manpower to maintain whatever weapons...
...quarter of the population, wear false teeth (i.e., upper or lower plates, or both), and about 10 million more use partial dentures. For the great majority, regular removable plates are sufficient, but others find ordinary false teeth uncomfortable and irritating. For these "denture neurotics" one possible solution is a feat of tiny-scaled civil engineering known as the dental implant, i.e., fastening the denture to the jawbone to hold it in place permanently...
...center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes circled overhead, the rebels charged, and after a vicious fight that littered the street with dead, the building fell. By noon rebels controlled the city-the first such feat they have been able to pull off since last November, when they held the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba for a few hours in a badly timed prelude to Castro's seaborne invasion from Mexico. It was also the first big show of strength outside the Santiago area...
...hour. They had topped Grand Pilastre's crest by 10 a.m., climbed another eight hours over easier ground. At 6 p.m. they scrambled at last atop the great peak of Mont Blanc. They descended by an easier route. Next day, as European newspapers front-paged their feat, Walter Bonatti went skiing for exercise...