Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes for his government in the Chamber of Deputies, Fanfani hedged his gamble by handing important Ministries of the Budget, Treasury and Interior to more conservative members of the Christian Democratic Party. Some of his critics grudgingly conceded that despite its leftward lean, Fanfani's Cabinet struck a "perfect balance." Absent from the government coalition were the Liberals, Italy's nearest equivalent to a free-enterprise party. Sighed Liberal Leader Giuseppe Malagodi: "Every nation in Europe seems to have tried the socialist adventure. Now it is Italy's turn...
Wahoo was not noted for learning half a century ago, but its less-than-perfect school system did not slow or discourage Beadle's active mind. He made his own lunch, generally jelly sandwiches (he still hates jelly sandwiches) and walked the three-mile round trip to school. When he earned a little money by such rural operations as keeping bees and trapping muskrats, he bought garlic bolognas (two for 5?) at the Bohemian butcher shop...
Still he continued to stare--very rude, he reminded himself--at this girl. Young, buxom, obviously in perfect physical condition, soft-spoken (he extrapolated on this point), but with ankles a bit too thick and hands a bit too strong...
Died. Alfred Noyes, 77, right-bank English poet (The Highwayman), critic (Voltaire), philosopher ("God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies"), novelist (The Devil Takes a Holiday), onetime (1914-23) professor of English literature at Princeton; on the Isle of Wight. The early commercial success of his verse was a sensitive point with Noyes, who abhorred the hack reputation, denied that he "had made poetry pay." Born a generation after his time, Traditionalist Noyes was sharply articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought...
...find its way into the pine box (now part of the Pierpont Morgan Library) until 1956. Though it clarified nothing of Thoreau's love life, it did at least strengthen the claim that his precise, craftsmanlike hand had fashioned the box, for the 39 notebooks made a snugly perfect...