Word: perfectability
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...show scandals. Howie (Albert Salmi) is a hulking ex-deck ape, the kind of guy who knows everything except when to shut up. He finishes his mother-in-law's Double-Crostic, his father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids-in short, the perfect quiz contestant. But when his sister-in-law (Patricia Bosworth) helps con him into going on a quiz show, he refuses $96,000 after he discovers that his opponent has got a fast shuffle. All this drew exactly 262 laughs one evening in Boston. Until curtain time in New York...
...Tatti with its light walls, gardens and terraces is one of those sumptuous affairs the romantics of old would have called a "typical Italian villa." Internally it is unique. Berenson has also observed that a house can be "part of one's raiment, the outerrost garment. ..." It is a perfect description of I Tatti, an instrument for and product of the pursuit of what B.B. calls "IT". "IT", he explains, "comes to mean taking life ritually as something holy, of mystical import and in one's thought ideatedly--if not in realizable actuality as a sacred performance. From childhood...
...Holding his Garand rock-steady, Marine Technical Sergeant Michael Pietro-forte, 30, peered down the range at the Camp Perry, Ohio national rifle matches, methodically plunked all 50 of his shots into the bull's-eye at distances of 200 to 600 yds., registered the first perfect score of 250 points in the 55-year history of national trophy matches. Three days later Army Pfc. Philip Toloczko, 23, turned the same trick...
Kenneth Barlow, a male nurse who often gave injections (including insulin) to patients in north of England hospitals, thought he had it figured out. Colleagues quoted him as saying: ''You could commit a. perfect murder with insulin. It cannot be traced." Last year Barlow, 38. had his chance. His second wife. Elizabeth, was pregnant, and neither wanted the baby. He started to give her injections of ergometrine to induce an abortion. On a May night. Elizabeth Barlow, 30, was found drowned in the bathtub...
...ability, [it] would not have been found out. Those responsible for the scientific research ... are to be very highly congratulated for [their] skill and patience." Barlow was sentenced to life imprisonment. The medical researchers are churning out bushels of data to help colleagues find the flaw in any such "perfect crime...