Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After pleading that he was too sick to testify because of his heart condition, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 65, looked in perfect health when the Government's deportation case against the Italian-born racketeer was thrown out of court (because so much of the evidence was gathered through wire taps). "By the law of averages, I was bound to win this one," said Costello. Then he was led back to prison, where he recently began serving a five-year sentence for cheating the Government on taxes...
...remarkable display of depth, the varsity placed its entire 12-man squad ahead of the first M.I.T. team, and only a second place finish by B.U.'s Canadian marathon champion, George Hillier, deprived the Crimson of cross country's equivalent of the perfect game...
Earlier, the Yardlings had opened their season on an equally auspicious note, swamping the B.U. and M.I.T. freshmen by the near-perfect score of 16 to B.U.'s 58 and M.I.T...
...Democrats have not been perfect on the issue, either, but the dominant element in the party swung 83 per cent of the Senate Democratic vote for Hells Canyon, while 96 per cent of the Republicans, under Eisenhower pressure, opposed...
...more ships; we'll take them through," shouted one pilot as he took his tanker into the cut. A second convoy of 29, the largest in months, headed north from the Red Sea entrance and arrived at Port Said right on schedule twelve hours later. The weather was perfect, sparing for the moment the inevitable trials of crosswinds and sandstorms that may provide the real test for Nasser's pledge to keep the canal functioning normally. Delighted with the first day's performance, President Nasser awarded the Egyptian Order of Merit to every pilot who made...