Word: feats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must tell you a feat of my dog Beau," he could write to a friend in the daytime hours-and then spin a pleasant story about how his dog had jumped into the river to bring him a water lily. The same night, he might be visited by one of his apocalyptic visions-mind-freezing apparitions that shrieked in his ears: "Actum est de te; perusti! [It is all over with thee; thou hast perished...
...days, cornering a market in commodities or stocks was a favorite pastime among the wizards of Wall Street and the giants of the grain pits. But now, making a corner is illegal, unless it is done accidentally; in recent years the feat has been accomplished only rarely. Last week there was a growing belief that a combine of speculators had cornered the July futures market in rye-and made a big killing...
...engine monoplane. Has turned out 30 major planes from light puddle-jumpers to 1934's lumbering, eight-engine Maxim Gorky (which crashed after a few flights). Exiled during the purges, he came back in 1942 to design attack bombers (TU-2) for the Red air force. Greatest engineering feat: copying the U.S. B29, getting it in limited production within a year. Reportedly working on a Russian turboprop version...
...achieved political unity. In modern Israel, though they have gotten together to achieve statehood, the Jews are politically as disunited as ever. The tiny country has accomplished a great deal since its birth three years ago. It has managed to 'survive as a state, in itself no mean feat; it has built an army which has the respect of the hostile Arab nations, and it has gathered in some 600,000 immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Middle East. But political factions, seizing on social and economic grievances, keep Israel in political turmoil...
...Hill worked at odd jobs, did some tourist guiding, shot the rapids himself in 1945 and 1948, gradually developed an irresistible hankering to go over the falls from the top. If he did it and lived, he would be the fourth person in history to accomplish the feat.* Said he: "People want to see somebody go over those falls. I'm their...