Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore Sean Jackson made all the big shots, banging home four of six second-half three-point attempts to kill Harvard's relentless attempts at a comeback. All of Jackson's shots were open jumpers set up by the flawless execution of the Tigers' motion offense...
...something swift and decisive, short and sweet -- a Panama perhaps. For these are the two poles of our collective military memory: on the one hand, the quicksand of Vietnam; on the other, the "brilliant success" of Panama, ; or so it was heralded at the time -- a military action so flawless, so perfectly executed that, as one of the generals responsible for carrying out the invasion boasted shortly afterward, "There were no lessons learned...
Harvard was out of sync on offense, hovering around the ball and forcing the play into the crowded paint. Hartford, on the other hand, played nearly flawless basketball, committing only 14 turnovers. The Hawks spread their offense out, moving the ball well around the perimeter and making solid entry passes to forwards posting down...
...student mind was still copying out of encyclopedias, just as something immature in his sexual development had him going obsessively after women. And something childish in every mind rejects imperfection in heroes. King's greatness came from somewhere else entirely, a deeper part of the forest. No character is flawless, and if it were flawless, that would be its flaw. Everything in nature, Emerson wrote, is cracked...
...Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell concede, the deployment of U.S. forces to the gulf has been less than flawless. But it will be completed shortly, and a decision to wage war will probably follow. Most if not all of the serious diplomacy of recent weeks has concerned preparedness, not peace. And the latest from the mullahs in Tehran supports the view that the economic embargo, if it could ever squeeze Saddam sufficiently to cause his unilateral withdrawal from Kuwait, would take well over a year to do so -- a period too long to sustain...