Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...umbrellas and shells have popped up everywhere-as factories, housing projects, private homes, chapels or as shelters for the marketplace. The basic shell forms are only an inch or two thick, but they can be modified, tipped, inverted, varied almost indefinitely. In earlier days, Candela seemed to accomplish this feat of engineering almost by intuition; he gave the impression of looking down on those who mathematically calculated and recalculated stress. Today Candela checks his designs with the help of IBM machines at University City. "I am," says he happily, "the prisoner of geometry." Candela is usually content...
...spacecraft of the other. Even if this extra twist does not come off, the duo flight once again proves that Russia is at least two years ahead of the U.S. in space, and moreover, knows how to woo the world's females. Stated purpose of the Valery-Valentina feat: to study the impact of space "on the organism of a man and a woman...
...hell do not exist, and who must look to their own origins for the polarities of the spirit. "The need for roots exists; the need which unappeased drives the human heart to paralysis and self-destruction." Read is an atheist of religious temperament who has achieved the rare feat of transferring his natural reverence from God to God's creation without falling into current humanistic idolatries about man. He hates political man and distrusts all human groups above the size of a British infantry platoon (30 men). Most of all he hates modern man's "industrial civilization...
...been. Crippled, he has been good enough to win a triple crown (batting, home runs, RBIs) in 1956, to hit .365 in 1957, to clout 54 homers in 1961, to win the Most Valuable Player award three times, and to spark his team to nine American League pennants-a feat for which the grateful Yankees are currently paying him $100.000 a year...
...accepting as truths the cliches of the classroom or the text-books. We are likely to avoid difficult intellectual questions, for to think about them honestly might be to change our conception of ourselves, our potentialities, our futures. We are nearly self-assured but beneath pose often lies the feat of confronting new information...