Word: perfective
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...book. But “White Teeth” changes once Smith takes up the mantle of the new generation, the products of cross-cultural fertilization. Smith provides a snapshot of Archie’s daughter Irie writing feverishly in her diary. Her depiction of overwrought adolescence is pitch-perfect: “8:30 P.M. Millat just walked in. He’s sooo gorgeous but ultimately irritating! Tight jeans as usual. Doesn’t look at me (as usual, except in a FRIENDLY way).” Once the new generation, Irie and Millat, becomes old enough...
...perfect: overcast and misty. Eyeing the familiar high school track, she tried to hold back her nervous excitement as she adjusted her biker gloves and knee pads. Today, she had ditched the bubble wrap that usually covered her hand and knee padding. But she had added something new: elbow pads on her shoes...
Placing one knee and hand in front of the other in a perfect rhythmic motion, she began to crawl...
Meanwhile, D’Asaro’s school began organizing its annual Relay For Life, an event during which participants run or walk for 24 hours to raise money for the American Cancer Society. D’Asaro realized the fund raiser would be the perfect occasion to break the crawling record...
...near crippling blow to a young Democratic presidency but also cost the party its majorities in the House and Senate. And most important, it left the country with a dysfunctional health care system that 15 years later costs more and covers millions fewer. "It's not important to be perfect here," Clinton told reporters after his private lunch with the Democratic Senators. "It's important to act, to move, to start the ball rolling. The worst thing to do is nothing...