Word: flawlessness
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...courses as carving figure eights on the ice. In fact, after getting a disappointing grade in chemistry, Stanford Freshman Debi Thomas, 18, ripped up her entry form for the U.S. figure skating championships in Uniondale, N.Y. But she changed her mind, and in an inspired performance, Thomas landed five flawless triple jumps in her skating program, two more than she had been able to manage in practice during the previous week. They brought the crowd to its feet and Thomas to the women's crown, the first black figure skater to win a national title. "There's been...
...length, Toad moved on to an electric model, an IBM Selectric, and grew more rapturous still. Toad said the machine was like a small private printing press: the thoughts shot from his brain through his fingers and directly into flawless print...
Largely overshadowed by the tragic loss of Challenger, the feats of the indomitable Voyager 2 last week provided the only bright notes during the U.S. space program's darkest hours. As the 1,800-lb. spacecraft sped away from its close encounter with Uranus, it continued its flawless performance, transmitting data and pictures that are gradually stripping away some of the mysteries of the planet. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., nearly 2 billion miles away, William McLaughlin, the Voyager flight- engineering manager, could speak only in superlatives as he reviewed the data. Said he: "I think...
...AGAIN ON A SPARKLING WEEKEND DOWN IN FLORIDA, SOME PEOPLE WHO CARE PASSIONATELY FOR WORLD WAR II AIRPLANES -- "WARBIRDS," THE DEVOTEES CALL THEM -- PUT ON A SHOW. ON FRIDAY THE P-51S AND THE C-46S AND THE B-25 BOMBERS CAME RUMBLING INTO TITUSVILLE OUT OF A FLAWLESS SKY (YOUR FAVORITE PAINT-AND-FENDER MAN COULDN'T SPRAY A BETTER ONE), AND ON SATURDAY 13,000 PEOPLE PAID TO WATCH THEM ALL FLY. IT WAS A SWEET, INNOCENT EXERCISE, FOR THE CROWD AS WELL AS THE PILOTS, AND NOSTALGIA CLUNG TO THE AIR LONG AFTER THE LAST LANDING...
Still, he says, the program has been far from flawless during its first weeks...