Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mermaids Again? In Los Angeles, seasoned salts were baffled when the U.S.S. Caliente's heavy anchor chain got itself tied into a perfect lover's knot, had to be "untied" with acetylene torches...
...bakers decided to go back to work in honor of the visit, with the threat to strike again when the King had gone home. In Cape Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs a sensible public-relations department. The King and Queen have a sufficiently burdensome job without this tomfool buildup...
...With a perfect five for five record in intercollegiate competition, the Varsity "A" squash team will meet a Yale squad with ten straight wins behind them in Hemenway gym at 2 o'clock tomorrow...
M.I.T.'s underdog fencing squad administered a 15-14 defeat to Rene Peroy's unbeaten Varsity yesterday, to mar the Crimson's bid for a perfect slate. The match was a dead heat until the final bout...
...well as the Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish just that (though they were in no way different from 121 Leftists executed before them, or the 46 scheduled to be executed after them...