Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average of 3.01; this year there are 69 pitchers with lower ERAs than that. Three pitchers-Detroit's Denny McLain (record: 17-2), San Francisco's Juan Marichal (15-4) and Cleveland's Luis Tiant (14-5)-all have a shot at winning 30 games, a feat last accomplished by Dizzy Dean in 1934. Tiant, the All-Star game loser, has an incredible ERA of 1.24; the All-Star winner, Los Angeles' Don Drysdale, is only a few points off that...
...Kennedy's efforts to "get the genie back in the bottle" had some success in 1963's limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and he considered it one of his greatest achievements. Now, in the waning months of his presidency, Lyndon Johnson can take satisfaction from a comparable feat-and can claim credit for having set the stage for another that could prove even more historic...
...business entrepreneur than an attorney, still has some sharp questions and deft answers. In McCarthy, a loyal but stubbornly wrongheaded book, the Senator's onetime lieutenant tries to use those questions and answers to memorialize his old boss as a "courageous man who fought a monumental evil"-a feat that just might, of course, extend a little virtue-by-association to himself...
...nearly duplicated this scoring feat in the next game against Andover, as he tallied six times and added two assists to spur the team...
...most elusive quality is balance, the result of his unique musical genius. Though it can be emulated, it can never be reproduced. Notwithstanding certain lapses of taste--e.g., a modicum of Beethovenian bravura at the conclusion of the cadenza--and lack of classical proportion, the prodigiousness of the feat was unquestionable...