Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Past Perfect. In Sheringham, England, Student Roderick Saunders failed to show up at the Sheringham Secondary Modern School on the day he was to receive a prize for perfect attendance during the previous term...
...dogs ... I said to the President: 'Are you going to act? If you do not, which Heaven forbid, we [the armed forces] shall force a change.' " Mirza waited for the right moment, hoping to prevent "another Iraq." A police battle with Moslem League demonstrators provided "the perfect opportunity" for surrounding the capital with troops. On the chosen day Mirza wrote out his proclamation dissolving political parties and imposing martial law, had it typed under guard. Assured that the troops were in position, Mirza issued his orders. "I have no sanction of law or of constitution," he told reporters...
...again after only two days' rest. For a while it looked as if he could bring it off. In the second inning Milwaukee led 2-1, and loaded the bases. But Howard was there again, this time to catch Johnny Logan's short fly, make a perfect peg home to throw out lumbering Andy Pafko by 15 ft. In the tenth inning the ubiquitous Howard singled and scored what proved to be the winning run as the Yankees licked Spahn...
Chub Newell's perfect placement conversion in the third quarter provided the margin of victory after halfback Bob Hunter had raced 30 yards through the center of the Tufts defense...
Anthony Quinn as the strong man is a perfect brute: a genuine gorilla without ever a stroke of undue breast-beating...