Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Getch laid down a perfect squeeze bunt to bring home the run that beat Columbia, 4 to 3, in the last of the ninth. But his tap, which went for an infield hit, came only a few pitches after another bunt call had almost quenched the Crimson's rally...
Public debate on the nation's policy of developing atomic and hydrogen bombs always has been handicapped by one stark fact: there can hardly be two sides to the argument when the nondebating Russians are rushing to perfect the biggest, most devastating weapons as fast as they can -and now are bragging about it to boot (see FOREIGN NEWS). Last week two Democratic candidates relearned this lesson in a discussion that went, chronologically, thus...
...Those were mighty fine pictures of Ed Wynn, "The Perfect Fool," in your News in Pictures. C. W. CARROLL Rochester...
...critic Emile Henriot wrote: "At her flying start two years ago, we could wonder if this 18-year-old girl, bitterly instructed . . . would be the woman of only one book, this terribly disturbing Bonjour Tristesse . . . We had to wait for her second book. Here it is . . . and it is perfect...
Playing Mrs. Wilberforce, the contrast to the mob's coarseness, Katie Johnson is perfect. Offering unwanted cups of tea, forgetting umbrellas, or banging on a sink to make water flow, she frustrates the world's complexity by being innocent and gentle. Her solution to the loot problem is clear--"surely we must just send back the money...