Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then last week the Dutch lower house of Parliament debated "this imperfect treaty, with all its faults." With but one slight amendment, EDC passed, 75 votes to 11. The Netherlands thereby became the second member nation to approve EDC (the other: West Germany, where it has the consent of both houses...
...Lubells are communists we do not sympathize with their politics. But we do affirm their right to be unpopular, even to be wrong, and we will treat them as human beings as long as we admit ourselves to be fallible and imperfect. Carl Sapers '53 Robert Layzer '53 Anthony Bellenson...
...Boston theatre. Two of the five shorts are cartoons-abstractions of lines and triangles which seem to drift from the screen to an audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only a jumbled blur, the infancy of the Tri-Optic method is most evident...
...bombers struck at Communist supply bases and transport columns rolling southward towards the front. The Reds retaliated with a propaganda attack: a Communist plane dropped leaflets on U.S. lines showing American civilians relaxing in Caribbean sunshine. Front-line loudspeakers played Christmas carols. Through the imperfect loudspeaker transmission, some listeners thought they heard the phrase, in imperfect English: "We want to go home as much...
...form, let music, let all-quickening air Fulfil in beauty my imperfect prayer...