Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mound. He had won his 22nd game, 1-0. His 14 strikeouts gave him a total of 332 for the season-just 16 shy of Bob Feller's alltime record. More important, he had become the eighth man in modern baseball history to pitch a perfect game, 27 men up, 27 men down-and the first ever to hurl four no-hitters in his career...
Like most young New York intellectuals of his day, Kazin considered himself a socialist. "I thought of socialism as orthodox Christians might think of the Second Coming," he says, "a wholly supernatural event which one might await with perfect faith, but which had no immediate relevance to my life." Like most of his friends, he spent much of his free time in passionate discussion of the decade's great storms: the Moscow purges, the rise of fascism, the Spanish civil...
...earth's atmosphere over California. Minutes later, at precisely 8:55:58 a.m. (EDT) on Sunday, they splashed down in the Atlantic about 90 miles short of target, soon were picked up by helicopter and lifted to the carrier Lake Champlain. Safe and smiling, they seemed in perfect shape...
...schema used floors like open terraces connected by cantilevered stairs and supported by interior columns. No longer load-bearing, walls could become curtains of glass; interior partitions could fall where whim or esthetics wanted them. Said Léger: "Corbusier made us a present of the white wall"-the perfect neutral setting for art. He hung stairs outside to leave interiors uncluttered. He lifted buildings on stilts, or pilotis, to free pedestrian space underneath, then doubled the available ground plan by building sheltered gardens on the roofs...
...points (out of a possible 800) and hitting the center bull's-eye 79 times in 160 shots. Another winner at the month-long matches: WAC Lieut. Margaret Thompson, who outshot 2,000 male competitors with a .30-cal. rifle to win the Navy Cup, firing a perfect score...