Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...licks. We continued down a rice check. Red ran to cover a cock pheasant and came to point. Stan walked in for the flush with his gun in position. I gave the signal and out came the bird. With a leap and a bound, Red made a perfect catch in the air. Everyone was surprised and began to kid Stan, saying that he would have missed anyway, so we gave Red credit for the save. Not thinking Red would repeat the performance, Stan was told he had but one more chance and he'd better make it good...
Viva! Mexico was ready for him. The weather was perfect-hot, bright, dry. Hundreds of thousands cheered him as he rode through the city, flanked by noisy coveys of brown-uniformed federal motorcycle policemen. When he made an appearance at the national stadium he was greeted by waves of applause, bugle calls, band music and a thunderous 21-gun salute...
Already Chile's Foreign Office was discussing with the Australians a South Pacific airline that would be sure to end Easter's pastoral isolation. The island's grassy downs, ten hours from Chile, would make a perfect way station...
...that his hair (a crew cut partly grown out) stayed plastered down. In the semifinals, he met 34-year-old Sidney B. Wood Jr., onetime Wimbledon champion who now (with pro star Don Budge) runs a fashionable Manhattan laundry. Time & again Wood showed that he could still hit a perfect overhead while leaping backwards, still nick the sidelines with smoking passing shots. Wood's laundry customers, out in strength, applauded wildly...
...then, did these climbers come to be upon the cliffs at all? Why do these men suffer this millennial death by inches? Toynbee's answer to the problem of causation is illumined by a daring dialectic. "The play," he says, "opens with a perfect state of Yin [the Sinic term for the state of perfect passivity opposed to which is Yang, the state of ordeal and creativity...