Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Berlin, Cuba and Laos loomed as the most menacing trouble spots for the U.S., Galbraith was counseling against the dispatch of even a few American combat troops to South Viet Nam. "A few," he advised Kennedy in 1962, "will mean more and more and more." His forecast proved flawless. From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew to more than 16,000 under Kennedy and half a million under Lyndon Johnson today. The war that they are fighting, cries Galbraith, is "perhaps the worst miscalculation in our history," and he sees the Viet Cong...
TCHAIKOVSKY: QUEEN OF SPADES (4 LPs; Melodiya/Angel). Because of the form's grandeur of aspiration and complexity of means, it is difficult to find a trivial opera. Yet Tchaikovsky managed to write a nearly flawless bit of trivia when he sat down to put silly music to a silly libretto about a fateful faro game and an old countess who is scared to death. That's right, scared to death by a mad gambler named Herman. In this recording, the role of the Countess is fairly well sung by Mezzo-Soprano Valentina Levko, and Herman is less well...
...penalty-killers Chip Otness and Don Grimble, along with defensemen Ben Smith and Bob Carr, ran out the two minutes with a flawless display of passing and craft...
...flawless supporting cast, Hattie McDaniel as Mammy gives a performance of star quality. Although a master of comic technique, she never sacrifices her role to the easy laugh; the development of her character through the years is the rock on which Gone With the Wind is built. Indeed, all the Negroes (even Butterfly McQueen, with the immortal "Lawsy, Miz Scahlet, Ah don' know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!") are so carefully individualized as characters that it is absurd to label them stereotypes or criticize the film for racial naivete...
Murphy's near-flawless form garnered 331.8 points. Captain Pete Alter placed second to give Harvard another sweep...