Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the end of the decade, the Soviets had already used huge rockets to blast far ahead of the U.S. In September 1959, only two years after they successfully orbited Sputnik 1, the Soviets hit the moon with Luna 2. That was 21 years before the U.S. matched the feat with Ranger 4. One month after Luna 2's flight, Luna 3 passed around the moon to shoot the first pictures of the hidden lunar backside. Not until more than six years later did Lunar Orbiter 1 televise similar shots...
...relies heavily on the charge of the "Fearsome Four-some"-Ends "Deacon" Jones and Lamar Lundy, Tackles Merlin Olsen and Roger Brown. Between them, they weigh a total of 1,096 Ibs. Last season the Fearsome Foursome flattened opposing quarterbacks 43 times; this year they have already accomplished the feat 27 times-tops in the league...
...experience of evil in terms of Americans." Briton Hadden: born in Brooklyn to a prosperous banking family, wanted to become a professional baseball player but wasn't that good; mischievous, mercurial and iconoclastic. After they met, and competed, at both Hotchkiss and Yale, they performed the extraordinary feat of raising $85,675 to launch their magazine. It was Hadden who developed TIME style, in its early incarnation an extraordinary idiom, at once economical, vivid, infuriating and occasionally poetic. While Luce managed the business end, Hadden edited, with a carefully annotated translation of Homer's Iliad by his side...
Separating Richard W. Kerry's set from Mayer's use of it would be an impossible feat. Suffice to say the union speaks extraordinarily well for both parties...
Unity became the first state chartered bank to over capitalize prior to opening for business and now, in a mere 90 business days of existence, it is on the verge of making a profit, a feat that, according to Sneed, usually takes a commercial bank three to five years. Since the stockholders are chiefly citizens of Roxbury and Dorchester, Unity's success will profit the entire community...