Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth and eighth, and lose those against Penn and Brown. By the second, the Crimson must win one, lose one, and tie one of the three home games, and must tie the Princeton game. Clearly there is a contradiction. We found that compromise of the methods was the perfect solution to the contradiction. Since the trends are symmetrical, and since the Penn and Yale games hold symmetrical positions in both, it is obvious that Harvard cannot fail to lose the former and win the latter. Only the Brown and Princeton games might seem to be in doubt. However, the Brown...
Inside left Tom Bernheim increased the lead to 2-0 on a perfect head-in, after taking a pass from outside left Robin Magowan. John Adams scored the lone Tiger goal five minutes later on a direct kick, awarded after a penalty call against Beaver...
From the ten, on first down, Botsford faked two hand-offs, and with a perfect boot-leg motion, fooled the whole Tiger defense. He then lobbed a pass to Hooper, all alone in the end zone. Joslin's kick was wide...
Unintended Record. Captain Apt was too good and also too lucky. He followed the plan with consummate skill, and he hit every green light. The X-2 made a perfect drop from her mother plane. Her rocket engine ignited at exactly the right moment. Milburn Apt put her into precisely the right climb, and when he reached the assigned "bend-over" altitude (70,000 ft.), he leveled her off perfectly and let her rip. Nothing whatever went wrong. The rocket engine burned perfectly, and the fuel lasted nine seconds longer than it had ever lasted before. The speed climbed past...
...hard-bitten French air force intelligence officers in North Africa it was the perfect chance to score a coup that might shorten Algeria's long and bloody war. Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco, with the unofficial blessing of Socialist Guy Mollet's government, had invited top Algerian rebel chieftains from their Cairo headquarters to Rabat to talk peace terms with him. Then they would fly to Tunis for discussions with moderate Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba. A daring plan occurred to the officers: Why not kidnap the Algerian rebels' high command in midair...