Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next play, Brown drew a bead on John MacLeod, who was sandwiched between three defenders in the endzone, and threw a perfect scoring strike with a little over four minutes left in the first quarter...
...with our anti-inflation program? Will you help me?" The response from the crowd was only mildly enthusiastic. The President drew louder cheers in sunny Miami when he asked a rally of some 1,000 mostly elderly citizens: "When I get back to Washington and get that less-than-perfect tax bill, do you think I ought to sign it?" As his listeners roared "Yes!" Carter grinned and replied: "I will take your advice. I have decided to sign the bill." Then turning again to inflation, he spoke out for his plan as "badly needed." Said he: "It is tough...
...poor carnival worker who seems to him to be his exact double, though in fact - and Nabokov's smile can be discerned here - there is no resemblance between the two men. Undeterred by reality and convinced that fate has handed him a chance at the perfect crime, Hermann changes clothes with the fellow, then shoots him, intending to collect on the in surance policy through his wife and live blissfully ever after...
...finish college. Says Pat: "I've seen some families come to blows because a son was forced to farm when he didn't want to." But last year, when he bought still another neighbor's farm, Pat for the first time left the house standing because "it would be perfect for one of the kids...
...Caltech has achieved international influence far disproportionate to its size. The school has only 251 faculty members, 812 undergraduates and 851 graduate stu dents, making it roughly one-fifth the size of friendly rival M.I.T. Two-thirds of the incoming freshmen in an average Caltech class have scored a perfect 800 on advanced-mathematics college-entrance exams. Seventeen of its faculty and alumni have received Nobel prizes; two weeks ago, Alumnus Robert Wilson, now a researcher at Bell Labs, joined this elite roster by sharing the Nobel for physics...