Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven Hoods. O'Keefe's disclosures were just as fantastic as the known details of the robbery. The near-perfect crime had been committed by eleven Boston hoods, all of them veteran criminals. It had been painstakingly planned for 18 months, carefully rehearsed in several "dry runs" at the scene of the big crime. By the evening of the big heist, each member of the gang was letter-perfect in his role...
Pius XII called him "an outstanding painter characterized by deep spirituality, an innovator, sympathetic, effective, sincere, perfect. The picture world of Fra Angelico is truly the ideal world, whose atmosphere glows with peace, holiness, harmony and joy, whose reality is in the future, when finally justice will triumph on the new earth and in the new heavens...
...Dreyfus case had never happened, some writer undoubtedly would have invented it--so perfect is it for dramatic treatment. The case almost tore the Third Republic of France apart, involved at its height some of the most articulate men in modern history, and finally trailed off into an ending that was both touching and ludicrous. The movie Dreyfus, made in Germany in 1930, captures only some of the drama of the incident, mostly because it attacks the story with the somewhat unfocused view of a documentary...
...Yardling hockey team maintained its perfect record yesterday afternoon at Watson Rink by edging a Northeastern squad in a close 5-4 decision...
...first singles slot Charlie Hamm bowed to Dick Hoehn son of the Dartmouth coach, 12-15, 18-13, 12-15, 15-13. Hamm came frome a 10-14 deficit in the final game to 13-14, only to loss when Hoehn made a perfect drop shot off a near-winner by Hamm...