Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determined to fulfill his vow that, under him, France will "undertake great actions, assume great proportions, and greatly serve her own interest and that of the human race as well." The strategy is De Gaulle's, but he is fortunate in having at his side a nearly flawless technician in his coolly astute Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, 57, a diplomat with the surgically precise intellect and single-minded determination necessary to implement so ambitious a foreign policy...
...Class. Couve de Murville is in the tradition of his famous predecessors. He shares with Richelieu a mastery of detail and an acute sense of the true political situation, and possesses much of the glacial calm and stiff self-control of Talleyrand. So far, he has been the nearly flawless tactician of De Gaulle's grand strategy with its goals of 1) primacy in Europe, 2) increasing independence from the U.S., and 3) emergence as leader of the world's third force...
...just when Harvard's basketball fortunes seemed to have reached their lowest ebb of the season, the quintet produced a dazzling 20-minute exhibition of almost flawless play which routed the Lions...
...chords and 30-year-old blues riffs. His band is the best-drilled orchestra in jazz-which is why it swings like no other. The rhythmic nuances jazz needs to swing are blurred by the slightest imprecision in ensemble playing, but in Basie's band, the timing is flawless, and the result is a driving pulse that never for an instant falters...
...John O'Hara. As a novelist, O'Hara has lately faltered, but the more short stories he writes, the better he gets, and this newest collection refracts with flawless skill the sights, sounds and thoughts of four decades of American life...