Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maneuvering the bill toward Senate passage through an obstacle course of conservative opposition and a labyrinth of parliamentary rules was a Clausewitzian tactical feat executed by a most improbable general-Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. Long opposed to open-housing legislation, Dirksen lately reversed his field and joined up with the Republican-Democratic liberal coalition (TIME, March...
...always agreed the war must ultimately be won or lost. Even in the unlikely event that he does nothing further, Giap has already wrought physical and psychological damage that will take months or perhaps years to repair. Undeniably, he now has the initiative throughout South Viet Nam. In that feat alone, he has, in one stunning month, created an entirely new and far more ominous war for the allies in South Viet...
...midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman Sea. But any temptation to romanticize Chichester's feat will be quenched by a reading of this distillation from his 200,000-word...
When he was only 24, Chicago-born Author Watson helped solve the structure of the heredity-determining DNA molecule, a major feat for which he and British Scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins eventually shared a Nobel prize. Now, 15 years later, he has written a highly literate day-by-day account of his experiences (the title is drawn from the spiral-staircase shape of DNA). The book will lead readers to important discoveries of their own: scientific research is not necessarily the calm, orderly process so tritely portrayed in modern legend, and scientists are all too human...
Draper's win was the first in college competition. An ecstatic Dick Friedman, Harvard's coach, described the feat as "Harvard's greatest skiing performance of the year...