Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gambit. A perfect crime is like a soup-can skyscraper in a supermarket. Its smug symmetry, the hubris of it all, inspires the naughty little boy in everybody with a devilish desire to give the arrogant thing a nudge and bring it down in a thundering great heap. In Gambit, the naughty little boy in everybody should have the time of his life...
Bassi moved the Terriers ahead 40 seconds into the third period, but a great individual effort by Bauer, who scored from 15 feet on his own rebound, evened matters once more. Four minutes later Bauer held the puck on the left boards and timed a perfect pass to rushing roommate Dwight Ware. The sophomore winger tipped the puck just inside the left post to give the Crimson its shot at victory...
GUMMIDGE: Perfect. See how complicated you can make things? Imagine what damage you can wreak in the schools where a situation is no longer practical, it is viable; where a pupil is no longer unmanageable, but alienated...
...committee decided to try again, this time without a competition. After considering the work of 15 architects, it unanimously chose Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Marcel Breuer, 64, whose recently opened inverted-ziggurat Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan drew hostile criticism until it proved to be a perfect host...
...Perfect Charade. "Intentional discharges" account for 40% of all shooting incidents, according to a study made by British Columbia's fish and game department; the rest are accidental, and 80% of the accidents are "the result of sheer carelessness." A common case is the hunter who drops his loaded rifle to the ground, and bang! - scratch one hunter. Last fall a nervous Texan tried to club a wounded opossum to death with the butt of his rifle and shot himself in the stomach on the first swing. In October, a Colorado hunter tried to demonstrate a fast draw...