Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernal, no longer burdened by the stigma of being a rookie coach, has been administering the dryland exercise programs that he is renowned for with full force this year. Morning nautilus workouts, stretching, isokinetics, and between 200 and 500 situps a day have left the team in near-perfect physical condition. It showed vs. the Navy...
...regimes which promise the largest degree of personal and national liberty." But it seems that for Moynihan, treating other nations as equals generally means telling them they are inferiors. Bringing influence to bear on behalf of virtuous regimes means spending one's time dressing down regimes that are less perfect. In the end, what this reflects is not only a hatred of totalitarian principles, but a personal contempt for the cultures that embrace them, and perhaps for the peoples of developing nations in general. Thus this sort of remark on a trip Moynihan took to Peking...
That moment was the one blemish in an otherwise perfect 1977-78 campaign for the Harvard men's swimming team, one that included an undefeated dual meet season, an Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League title, a cascade of individual and team records, and a fifteenth place finish in the NCAA Championships, the Crimson's best since...
...stands on a revolving platform, an altar carpeted and decorated with flowers. She wears a beautiful evening gown. Her hand rests on the showroom-perfect...
...subject seems beyond the interest or knowledge of Berton Roueché. An amateur gourmet, he writes lovingly of bananas, "the humblest fruit," but with their comprehensive range of minerals and protective germ-battling skin, a near perfect food. He delves into history to recount the tale of garlic (the early Greeks and Israelites learned about it from the Egyptians). He waxes more poetic about apples, rejecting the notion that this was the fruit forbidden to Adam and Eve. "The apple-the apple I know, the apple of country cider and the autumn roadside bushel-would be out of character...