Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raman hove to-and the perfect escape was over. Next day she was back in Bremen, where police took the precaution of disabling her engines. Then they threw at Owner Mardin just about every charge in the maritime code book: speeding, dangerous passing, scraping a dock, steaming without lights, failing to give signals or obey traffic regulations, cutting a tug adrift and violating Germany's customs, passport, currency and ship clearance regulations. For all that, the police inspector could not down his admiration. "I must offer my highest praise for your brilliant navigational maneuvers," said he handsomely. Replied Hasim...
...recall one tight game in which the Red Wings were trailing by one goal: "Howe gets the puck inside the blue line and I'm yelling at him to shoot. But Howe just takes his time, works his way toward the cage, and then finally lets go a perfect shot to tie things up for us. When he came back to the bench, I asked him why he had taken so much time. Howe tells me, in that drawl of his: 'Ah jes wanted to make sure.'" Adds Coach Ivan: "He usually does make sure...
...than dramatist. He is armed with a text of sorts - family life in all possible aspects. But far from expounding it from a pulpit, he scatters it bit by bit in a wild game of hare & hounds. Its chief bit is parents & children, a theme for which Shaw had perfect Shavian qualifications: he was never a parent and quite possibly never a child. He effortlessly makes mincemeat of the two distinguished fathers in his play, and little monsters of their daughters & sons. The war between the generations ticked off. he turns to the war between the sexes. Misalliance offers some...
Communist generosity towards Jewry began years ago when the Party grated religious freedom. Then Hitler's slaughter offered Stalin a perfect opportunity to show his golden heart and pull a coup on Breat Britain and the United States in the process. By offering the province of Birobijan as a Jewish national homeland, while the UN was still fighting over who would get Palestine, Stalin hoped to alienate the large remnant of Europe's Jews from the Western world. Thousands did go to Birobijan, a vast expanse of tundra whose only abundant natural resource is snow. They have not been heard...
...lyrical melodies. Charles Munch conducted the music of his countryman with deep understanding, although his occasional over-emphasis of inner voices sometimes blotted out the main line. This was especially noticeable in the more vigorous passages of the second movement. But his passionate interpretation of the Love Scene was perfect...