Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the Soviet Union has scored only one success in 18 or 19 launches of probes to Mars and Venus. But that success was the apparent soft landing of a working, instrumented capsule on the surface of Venus last October, a feat indicating that the quality of Russian planetary probes is beginning to catch up to the quantity. U.S. experts expect a rash of additional Russian planetary shots in 1969 and the early 1970s, including a Martian soft-landing attempt as early...
...While it may seem an extraordinary feat for Oswald to have hit his target in two out of three rapid-fire shots," argues Sparrow, it is more difficult yet "to believe that two men more than 100 yards apart and unable to see or communicate with each other, could have synchronized their fire so perfectly. And it is hardest of all to imagine that conspirators would have allowed the success of their plan to depend on such a feat of synchronization...
Although scientists had previously accomplished this feat, the DNA molecules they produced had breaks in their strands and were not biologically active. These separations, scientists believe, were caused by enzyme impurities in the DNA polymerase. To avoid this pitfall, the Stanford team had concentrated on the complete purification of its DNA polymerase, but could not be certain that their effort had paid off without calling in expert help...
...comes British Naval Historian Christopher Lloyd to testify in the captain's defense. Bligh, he said on the 150th anniversary of the captain's death, possessed "resolution, courage, professional skill and a high standard of moral rectitude." Not only did Bligh pull off quite a feat by rescuing himself; he also went on to a brilliant naval career that won him a battle commendation from Admiral Lord Nelson. To be sure, admitted Lloyd, the good Bligh had trouble "understanding the feelings of other people," but that merely reflected "an unfortunate personality," which is probably what Fletcher Christian meant...
...Canada and says he built the first workable artificial kidney in North America. At one time, Dr. Murray claimed to have a serum that alleviated the suffering of breast-cancer victims, although its effectiveness was never proved. Last week, at 73, Dr. Murray reported that he had accomplished a feat that has eluded specialists in neurosurgery. He has, he said, successfully rejoined severed spinal cords in four of seven paralyzed patients...