Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preamble of the Constitution of the U.S. states the goals of our people, which I believe are equally the goals of the brave people of Korea," Eisenhower concluded, "namely, to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty . . . With the conclusion of an armistice, the U.S. is prepared to join with the Republic of Korea to seek for Korea these ends . . . It is our desire to go forward in fellowship with the Republic of Korea. Even the thought of a separation at this...
...Perfect Projection. The show came to its conclusion exactly on time. As a television performance, it had come off remarkably well; it was smooth, well paced and almost completely free of the little distractions which often mar nonprofessional appearances. But its real significance lay deeper: Ike, articulate and perfectly at ease, had engineered a successful new method of political communication from the White House to the U.S. The show provided a perfect projection of his friendliness, warmth and underlying firmness. Within the hour politicos were predicting, with partisan delight or partisan foreboding, that he could make TV a formidable political...
Mickey Mantle set a muscular chain reaction in motion. Starting in the ankles, rippling through knees, hips, torso, broad shoulders and 17-in. bull neck, he brought his bat around in a perfect arc to meet the ball with a sharp crack. High and deep it sailed. The White Sox centerfielder. playing deep, went a few steps back, then stood, face upturned, as the ball sailed over the fence for a 425-ft. home...
Many considered it a moral issue, and believed any testimony inferred their sanction to the committee's proceedings. Some felt that they had a perfect legal right to remain silent, for if they once spoke witnesses would be produced by the committee's to corner them on grounds of perjury. Even among the foremost legal minds in the nation there was no agreement. Morris L. Ernst, in an explanation of the problems confronting those who testified, wrote the following to the CRIMSON...
...Dean William Taeusch of Ohio's little (1,000 students) College of Wooster, the new history instructor seemed just about perfect. He was a suave, scholarly Briton named Robert Peters. He had an impressive Oxford accent and an even more impressive array of credentials. A letter from Oxford's Magdalen College stated that he had an M.A. He apparently had another master's degree from the University of Adelaide in Australia. His specialty was medieval church history...