Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mercy. "They are criminals," he said. "Everybody knows that. We give them a fair trial. Mothers come in and say, 'This man killed my son.' " To demonstrate, Castro offered to stage the courts-martial in Havana's Central Park-an unlikely spot for cool justice but perfect for a modern-day Madame Defarge...
...tradition among air-faring folk. Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh spent years (1930-35) helping Dr. Alexis Carrel to perfect a "robot heart," a germ-free pumping device in which entire organs were kept alive outside the body...
...Athletic Director enumerated several reasons behind these moves. "First of all," he said, "we feel that Yovicsin needs some time to himself to perfect his slot-T attack. The understanding is that he will spend the year in the Pocono mountains where he'll study and perhaps play a little golf in his spare moments...
Liebesfreiheit. All students get intensive language instruction in German from native teachers, and plenty of practice with the amiable Beutelsbachers. The results are impressive, although not perfect -on one dining hall poster, "love of freedom'' (Freiheitsliebe) came out Lie-besfreiheit-free love...
...this world are harassed fathers and embattled moms, superfluous daughters and choosy suitors, haughty heiresses and dashing cads, all playing their parts in an endless round of dances, tea parties and chaperoned strolls, and doing their best never to cut a competitive throat without first casting a veil of perfect gentility over the operation...