Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quick man with the ad lib. Asked how it felt to leave New York City and settle among the greener pastures of Rochester, Sheen replied: "There is a certain road in Ireland where it rains on one side and is all sunshine on the other. It forms a perfect rainbow. The tears are in New York and the sunshine in Rochester for my rainbow...
...mathematical model of the present distribution of interplanetary dust, they produced a set of equations describing the primitive solar system when, like R Man, it was surrounded by a vast cloud of dust. Low checked the predictions of this model against his R Mon readings, and found an almost perfect match...
...Girl. They don't make them that way in show business much any more, and Americans seem to sense it. Her perfect-pitch soprano has a crystal clarity and superb diction, and yet it can be as warm and soft as a purr. She does not radiate sensuality, nor is she the pulp of publicity campaigns. She is everybody's tomboy tennis partner and their daughter, their sister, their mum. To grown men, she is a lady; to housewives, the gal next door; to little children, the most huggable aunt of all. She is Christmas carols...
...mistress murmurs comfortingly when she finds the vile fellow sulking over an unsuccessful assassination. "Maybe we can find somebody to run over on the way home." The wackiest crack, however, is delivered by the beastly bodyguard. When somebody protests that it isn't nice to "kill a perfect stranger," the brute tolerantly replies: "Nobody's poifick...
Always a soldier's soldier, he also had to make sense to civilians. In Henry Stimson, a lawyer and a courtly gentleman, he found a perfect Secretary of War, but by no means a complaisant one. Stimson and Marshall both policed the perimeter of their authority and never let develop the kind of abrasive relations that were common in Washington between politician and the military...