Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former All America Halfback Pete Dawkins cracked out a "boundary," the equivalent of a home run, moved Oxford's Captain Alan Smith to murmur, "Jolly good, oh, say, jolly good." But Rhodes Scholar Dawkins, who startled the British last year by mastering rugby, shrugged off his feat: "It would take me 80 years to become a good cricket player...
...since World War II has TIME'S staff executed such a feat of doubletime journalism and production. This all-out effort to report an exciting moment of history produced a story that we feel-and we hope our readers agree-is unmatched in its drama, depth and perspective...
...first two volumes of his war memoirs, The Call to Honour (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955) and Unity (TIME, May 18, 1959), recorded De Gaulle's near-miraculous feat of creating a Free France from moral and military wreckage. Salvation, the third and last volume, covers the years between France's liberation (1944) and his resignation as France's first postwar Chief of State (1946). In a sense it is the most revealing book of the three. A hero at home and on the job is bound to lose some of the aura that surrounded...
...longtime crusader for the test-ban agreement, set out to describe the kind of detection network that would adequately police a ban on underground explosions. In describing a system that would require 600 seismograph stations spread across the U.S.S.R. alone, Bethe only convinced his congressional listeners that the feat of detection was just as impossible as Teller said...
...history. Last week, completing the job of skating and shooting the Toronto Maple Leafs off the ice, Les Canadiens won the Stanley Cup play-offs in four straight games. The scores: 4-2, 2-1, 5-2, 4-0. It was the fifth consecutive Stanley Cup for Montreal, a feat never equaled...