Word: perfecter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came the fireworks. Predun found sharpshooter Mike Faught in the slot and Faught laid a perfect feed into the stick of Ward, who faked high and dropped the ball past Brown goalie Charlie Meister. Seven of the ten Harvard players were involved in the extraordinary fast-break...
...play seems perfect for an amateur company. Moliere's pleasantly improbable plot is simple, yet full of comic possibilities, and his wonderfully drawn characters are in typical bonne forme...
...1960s. Martin Van Buren's sweetly cunning countenance could have belonged to a real estate shark. William Henry Harrison looked bilious. Millard Fillmore at times resembled a triumph of dishevelment. William McKinley, says Edmund Morris in The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, seemed the perfect picture of a President - but only "from the neck up." McKinley also owned stumpy legs, pulpy hands and a commanding gaze that was mobilized, says Morris, by a tormented effort "to concentrate a sluggish, wandering mind...
...season's first few games, it was the check-happy Harvard defense that controlled the tempo of Saturday's windchilled contest. Scott Pink's unrelenting stick and Frank "Carlo" Prezioso's positively vicious head-removal service provided the perfect complement to First's clutch goaltending. "Penn's attack is not that good one-on-one," explained Pink, who terrorized Penn attackman Tim Dachille all afternoon...
...afternoon, though, Bayliss's humility had proved unfounded. The Midshipmen kept their 1979 record perfect by stunning the Crimson, 5-4, on Navy's windswept outdoor courts. It was the biggest upset in Eastern League tennis since Harvard defeated Princeton...