Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week, as President Dwight Eisenhower flew to Manila, he found the administration engaged in an activity familiar to machine politicians in any imperfect democracy: it was frantically trying to clean house before it faced the voters...
...picking sage seeds on the Fordhook Farms for 5? an hour. He attended Culver Military Academy, spent summers traveling in Europe with his father to buy new flower seeds, or working at the Floradale Farms as a roguer, i.e., one who picks out rogues, or imperfect plants. After a year at Cornell, David. 22, took over the company when his father died in 1915. He has increased business 14 times to a gross...
...Ping-mei, 59, has all the qualifications to make himself hated by the Reds. Born to a wealthy Roman Catholic family in a small town near Shanghai, he studied for the priesthood in Shanghai's French Jesuit College at Zikawei, where he learned to speak perfect French and imperfect English and to understand Westerners. Father Kung specialized in education, showed notable skill as director of Shanghai's Song Hong School and later St. Louis College. In 1949, as the Communists took power, he was made Bishop of Soochow...