Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after 69 minutes and 33 seconds of hard-fought, intense struggle, Yvon Lambert took a perfect cross-ice pass from teammate Mario Tremblay and without hesitation slipped the puck between the pads of Bruin goalie Gilles Gilbert. The shot gave Montreal a 5-4 come-from-behind win and the sudden-death semifinals-winning goal that the 17,453 in attendance and most of Canada had been praying...
Lafleur had been the impetus behind Montreal's late comeback from a 3-1 deficit as the third period began. At 6:10 he circled the Boston cage, then spotted Mark Napier streaking netward and gave him a perfect set-up. Two minutes after that, Lafleur repeated the trick as Guy Lapointe tied it from the point...
...House just as Carter was sending Congress his proposal for the windfall tax, and he seized the opportunity to make yet another appeal for passage, saying that the industry is "already awash" with profits. The occasionally populist President shows a deep distrust of large oil companies, and they are perfect targets for a bit of demagoguery because much of the public dislikes them too. Carter's verbal overkill is also intended to deflect public fury from the White House when gasoline prices, which are already rising sharply, go up even more as a result of decontrol...
Freshman Cat Ferrante again proved herself a capable playmaker while directing the offense with perfect passes out to the wings. On an impressive decoy play. Ferrante charged down the center of the field, drew the defense after her and then sent St. Louis an arrow-straight pass. St. Louis completed the play by going one-on-one with the Dartmouth point and scoring on a ground shot...
...listen to the stories, about Ruth earing an 18-egg omlet, and the time he bellied up to Warren Harding before a game with the Senators and said "Hot as hell, ain't it, Prez?" Or how about the time Don "Perfect Game" Larsen totalled his car during spring training and Casey Stengel, when asked what Larsen was doing out at five in the morning, replied, "He went out to mail a letter." Or the time in 1977 when the Yanks almost traded Ron Guidry to the White Sox for once-and-future mediocrity Bucky Dent. Or the moron reporter...