Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the oarsman is determinedly keeping his eyes within the boat, the coxswain is giving him a running commentary on the race. In addition to steering, the "cox" verbally enforces a perfect symmetry of eight oars throughout the stroke; he reminds rowers of specifics of technique; he describes the frantic chaos evident in the opponent's boat, regardless of its relative position; and he calls for changes in rowing speed and power at strategic moments in the race. Occasional "Power Tens" are yelled out to gain a decisive edge with ten all-out strokes; the coxswain's comments range from...
...Holocaust, many bearing the tattoos of their concentration camps. The newcomers entered a business that had been a specialty of Jews since the Middle Ages, when the trade was one of the few professions that did not come under the purview of a tightly controlled guild. Diamonds were also perfect wares for a persecuted and wandering people who had to carry their means of livelihood with them...
...candied or sentimental, and never coarse. In those blue-gray distances of field and forest, punctuated by the silhouette of a horse (the creature's profile cut like a weather vane, as though by shears) or the bright red caesura of a barn, one sees the equivalent of perfect natural pitch in singers: an instinctive truth of tone, the mark of a born painter. At her best, she makes nearly every American "primitive" who has appeared since her death look postcardy; her own nostalgia, however tempered by cuteness now and then, has not lost its ability to work...
Everything worked out fine. Although Gene missed his hookup with Schlosser, he did manage to pass the documents fancily to his plummeting wife. Three minutes later the couple made a perfect landing. "Almost everything in our marriage was done around skydiving, so the divorce in the air seemed the natural thing to do," Lynda explained. Watching it all from the ground was Gene's bride to be, Lorraine Ahern. She jumps out of airplanes...
...Senate criminal justice subcommittee now wants to give courts that authority, with a bill that would require pretrial in camera hearings on the relevance of intelligence information. It is not a perfect solution-the Government must still decide whether to prosecute if the judge allows secrets to be disclosed...