Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world again. Now that De Gaulle intends to direct his attention to healing France's internal ills, he has elevated to the premiership the man whose cool acumen and legendary iciness won him among the world's diplomats a wry but not undeserved nickname: "The flawless performer...
Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a Boston tycoon with a brilliant criminal mind. Uneasy lies the Crown that wears a head. To pique the Establishment that he is part of, he hires some crooks and stages a flawless $2,660,527.62 robbery that leaves the police without a clue. Enter Faye Dunaway, girl insurance investigator who has slept her way to the top of the business...
...Goldberg Variations-the judges gave the first prize of $1,000 to Toronto Pianist Mari-Elizabeth Morgen, 23. Mari-Elizabeth was so sure that she would not get past the semifinals that she brought only one dress to Washington. That was her only mistake; at the piano, she was flawless-poised, professional, and in full control of the knuckle-crunching requirements of the Goldbergs.* Second and third prizes were given to Austrian-born Claudia Hoca of Kenmore, N.Y. ($500), and Kiyoka Takeuti of Tokyo...
...Ladies and gentlemen," announced the auctioneer at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, "we now come to the Krupp diamond"-a flawless, 33.19-carat blue-white stone once given by German Industrialist Baron Alfried Krupp to his wife Vera, and considered one of the world's great gems. $100,000, commenced the auctioneer, and up shot the price. $150,000 . . . $175,000 . . . $225,000. At $300,000, even Jeweler Harry Winston, who had long coveted the stone, was forced to drop out. Winning bid: $305,000. The determined purchaser: Richard Burton, who sent his agents to snap...
Todd, coming in in the seventh, had trouble with his control. A wild pitch, triples by Bill Cherry and Jon Perron, and three errors by the usually flawless freshman infield gave the game to the J.V. In the last of the ninth a Yardling rally died after only one run had scored, and the game ended with a 12-9 J.V. victory...