Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japanese surgeons can perform miracles. Jujin Hospital's Dr. Fumio Umezawa was once asked to remodel an unknown Hong Kong actress to look like a star who had died in the middle of a movie; his work was so perfect that superstitious studio hands swore they were seeing a ghost. After nearly three decades of plastic surgery, in fact, Dr. Umezawa admits to only one failure. It involved a Japanese movie actress who had come to him for the insertion of bags of silicone jelly to build up her breasts. Shortly after the operation, she had to go before...
...blockade runners. There is another reason, more subtle but just as valid. Never has economic coercion from abroad been translated into political rebellion at home. On the contrary, it usually fires the patriotism of a beleaguered citizenry. In the case of Cuba, the U.S. embargo supplied Castro with the perfect excuse to explain to the Cuban people the failures of his revolution. The U.N. boycott of Franco Spain, which lasted from 1945 until 1950, led Spaniards to tighten their belts and close ranks behind him. Like the members of a quarreling family, they simply would not tolerate outside meddling...
...epee, Marion thinks his team should take at least six of its nine bouts against N.Y.U. It won all nine last Saturday, a perfect performance that Marion said "never happened before...
Essayist Charles Lamb wrote: "A pun is a noble thing per se. It fills the mind; it is as perfect as a sonnet, better." Of course, there is another quotation: "Anything awful makes me laugh." And that's Lamb...
Perhaps because of these problems of financing, location, and sales promotion, new cities like Reston have not become self-sufficient entities with perfect social mixes and solvent treasuries...