Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since systematic excavations began in Pompeii in 1860, diggers have uncovered within the city limits the petrified-ash shells of the bodies of some 40 victims. Formed by the gradual decay of the body inside its ash wrappings, the shells retained over the years a near-perfect negative impression of the figure they had enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum...
Twenty-seven year-old Don Larsen, Yankee right-hander, made the leap from mediocrity to immortality in a little over two hours yesterday, as he pitched the first perfect no-hit, no-run game in World Series history. The Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0, to give the Yankees a one-game edge in the series...
...political asset." Cella, who delivers 20 per cent of the lectures in Government 140, State, admitted that there are those who think an egghead has no place in practical politics. But, he argues, an understanding of the theory of politics, as well as the reality, is the perfect combination...
...there: blue-jawed, saturnine Salvatore Anthony Maglie. Cast off by the Giants, picked up by the Cleveland Indians and cast off again, ancient (39) Sal Maglie had been bought by Brooklyn only as possible second-line insurance. On that chilly evening last week, Maglie kept his hairline curve under perfect control, had the Philadelphia hitters swinging loose from their shoes. At the end, he had pitched the first no-hitter of his career. The Brooklyns suddenly began to act like men who were planning...
...often fooled into thinking that football is a game for muscleheads. The men who play for Duffy Daugherty know differently. On autumn Saturdays, when the chips are down, the Spartans play a game as intricate and demanding as any yet devised. Where other teams are satisfied to practice and perfect a single style of attack-the single wing, which piles blockers into a bludgeoning phalanx ahead of the ball carrier; the T formation, with its quick-opening plays and tricky hand-off s; the split-T, which spreads the defense for exasperating option plays-Michigan State uses all three...