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Word: perfect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they wanted to work with the clandestine Revolutionary Committee, a Los Angeles-based feminist faction of the Weather Underground that was looking for new members, especially people who knew about firearms. Ralph's purported experience in the military and Dick's in armed crime made them perfect candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Infiltrating the Underground | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...latest?American movie giants. They are star-craftsmen who have built, in a dozen years and better than a dozen pictures apiece, a couple of strong film characters, American arche types. Nowadays this is a rarer and perhaps more valuable achievement than making a string of perfect movie master pieces. These heroes?larger than ones found in ordinary life, but not entirely dis connected from it either?are not made in a single film. They grow out of a lot movies and eventually turn them all into mere incidents in the larger and more absorbing drama of the star career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...five 5-4 decisions which went against the Crimson had ended differently the swordsmen would have remained unbeaten. If any of the six fencers who won two of their three bouts had gone 3-0 the duelers would still have a perfect record. If. But that's not the way it happened, as Army beat Harvard...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Close But No Cigar; Harvard Fencers Edged, Not Smoked, by Army Swordsmen, 14-13 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Besides, Satch and his ballclub had a perfect understanding with each other. Each understood that neither could communicate with the other. So it makes sense that one of Satch's initial tasks with the Celtics will be to restore communication between the coach and the players, a task for which he's as perfectly suited as a sportcoat from Robert Hall...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Who's Kidding Whom, Or, Could You Speak Up a Little? | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

...soften the blow." The humanist in question is A. (for Angelo) Bartlett Giamatti, 39, a Yale professor of Renaissance literature, who last week was named 19th president of the university after a nine-month search almost as much talked about as David O. Selznick's pursuit of the perfect Scarlett O'Hara. The blow that he will have to soften is a painful but inevitable cutback on spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Humanist | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

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