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Word: perfectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perfect Record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Fencing Squads Slice SMU | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

Providence took the lead very early (1:10 into the game), when freshman Steve O'Neill took a perfect lead pass from Dave Dornseif and flipped it past the beaten Hynes...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Defrock Providence Friars in 6-4 Win | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

...Fortune Cookie," "One, Two, Three") likes to make comedies on grim subjects. ("Some Like It Hot" was about the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.) In this 1960 film an affable loser(Jack Lemmon)plays pim pin order to get a key to the executive washroom. Lemmon is perfect as the "schnook" who gets cornered into lending his apartment to philandering higher-ups in the Big New York Conglomerate in which he works. (Just a few years later, Lemmon, having played this role once too often, turned into a grotesque caricature of himself.) Shirley MacLaine is appropriately touching as the tough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Astronauts to the Executive Washroom | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

Fluoride ions work into the crystalline structure of the tooth surface and make the structure a more perfect and thus more stable crystal. The tooth is therefore less susceptible to decay by acid attack. (Tooth decay is largely caused by acid dissolution of enamel. Acid is a byproduct of food decay...

Author: By Scott A. Kripke, | Title: I'll Drink to That! | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...open his off-campus shows on the current tour, he has been hiring local strippers at each of his stops. They are a perfect prelude for the act that follows. When Waits finally takes the stage, an air of crushed cigarettes and damp napkins clings to him like lint. Beat-up pointed shoes, a greasy tie and baggy socks go just fine with his Salvation Army suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tom Waits: Barroom Balladeer | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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