Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primaries on the calendar before convention time, Wisconsin's was the one that was the closest thing to a pollster's dream of the perfect test of November. Of Wisconsin's 2,200,000 voters, some 58% live in and around cities, and the 42% rural population ranges from Cadillac-owning dairy farmers to the hard-pressed hog raisers and cattlemen along the Mississippi River and in the southwest. Even better, there was only one Democrat, Estes Kefauver, running against one Republican, Ike Eisenhower (although Ike had a nuisance challenge for the nomination from Ashland...
...Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent him to the Calasanziane Sisters...
...cases, e.g., the resignation of former Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott. In that way the correspondents have proved a blessing in disguise to the Republican Administration, though as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, when he applied the phrase to the British Labor victory in 1945, "the disguise is perfect...
...with his old flame, a successful movie star (Grable) on the Twentieth Century Limited between Chicago and New York is still young and funny. The plot is zany yet convincing, the characters oddballs yet winning (including an alcoholic pressagent and a lovable lunatic), the lines still fresh ("What a perfect death scene," sighs the star. "So simple. In her own bed"), the acting properly broad...
...Henry L. Stinson wrote: "No private program and no public policy, in any section of our national life, can now escape from the compelling fact that if it is not framed with reference to the world, it is framed with perfect ability." This view-point has not been confined to the Atlantic Seaboard and Mr. Stinson, or to such headline names as Paul Hoffman, Henry Ford, and John J. McCloy...