Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...completely happy, but it's the best we can do in an imperfect world," says Gould. "If somebody has a better suggestion, we'd love to hear...
...despised his real name; it smacked, somehow, of Aryanism and privilege. So he cloaked his origins in a common-sounding nom de plume. His disguise became him, and at last he became his disguise. Today the world remembers him only as George Orwell, seer of the future imperfect. Neither name nor reputation is quite correct...
...past time we ceased to apologize for an imperfect democracy. Find its equal. It is time we grew out of our initial-not a little condescending-supersensitivity about the feelings of new nations...
...suggesting that given equal education and opportunity, females would be the professional equal of men. Horace Walpole called her a "philosophical serpent" and a "hyena in petticoats." Even her friends, the liberal though pious Dissenters, were shocked by her challenge to the ancient wisdom that considered women to be imperfect...
...that must be said in his favor--and it is significant, for many other memorialists fall into the trap--is that he completely avoids sentimentality or indulgence for his 18-year-old self. He makes no attempt to portray his friends or his earlier self as anything other than imperfect individuals. He appears to possess that higher form of egotism that prompted Oliver Cromwell to have himself painted warts...