Word: perfectionistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his 2,000 employees (he also punched a bag daily), often showed up in old, patched clothes. He kept up his interest in sports as a pole vaulting coach at Yale for many years (he authored the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on pole vaulting) and, ever the perfectionist, gave up golf after getting his score down to 80 because "I cannot master this game...
...admiral was rapid and steady. At sea he commanded the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, later bossed Naval Forces Middle East, and finally spent six months in command of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In all these jobs he tightened his reputation as a demanding skipper, an arrogant, caustic perfectionist who let his subordinates know exactly what he wanted, and who got just that. Ashore, his big break came when he went to work for Rear Admiral Arleigh Burke, then chief of the Navy's Strategic Plans Division. Burke was already under way toward his present job as Chief...
PORTRAIT OF MAX, by S. N. Behrman. British Perfectionist Max Beerbohm, novelist, drama critic, cheerfully malicious caricaturist, let the 20th century wash past him during more than four decades of retirement in Italy. Edwardian dandy to the end, coolly satisfied with his own limitations and common-sensibly appalled by people who did not recognize theirs, he delighted in civilized talk of the kind that Playwright Behrman expertly caught...
...traveled endlessly promoting new business, has lured more than $1 billion in investment to North Carolina since 1954; at the same time he pushed stiff zoning laws past his legislature to prevent industrial blight. Hodges is a fiscal conservative who thrives on unorthodox operating procedure. "He's a perfectionist," says a friend. "He wants a report two weeks before he asks...
...packed with friends and relatives. The games draw less national publicity than the price of cotton raised on nearby farms. But year in and year out, the University of Mississippi plays some of the finest football in the nation. The reason: Coach Johnny Vaught, 52, a bluff, leather-faced perfectionist who has so identified the success of his team with the prestige of the state that Mississippians long ago forgot his Texas origins and now regard him as a native...