Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Venizelos changed all that. Born on Crete, equipped with an Athens law degree, he soon developed an extraordinary flair for leadership, a marvelous sense of situation, a nearly perfect aim with a revolver and one of the greatest poker faces in Europe. Crete was then still Turkish. Venizelos rapidly led two revolts, won Cretan autonomy, the first step toward union with Greece. The Greek Crown sent a chuckleheaded prince as Commissioner to Crete. With another revolt, Venizelos kicked him out because the prince looked on Cretans as a subject race. His local fame as a Cretan established. Venizelos moved...
...stance to bowl his first singles game in the annual American Bowling Congress. Fifteen minutes later, Bowler Mensenberg had done the thing that most bowlers do only in their dreams. Handicapped by an arm injury, using a borrowed ball, watched by his best girl, he had bowled a perfect game...
Chances against a perfect game-300 for 12 strikes-under the circumstances in which Bowler Mensenberg made his, at the No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, were 400,000 to 1. In the 35-year history of the Congress, only three bowlers in some 1,250,000 games have ever done it before.* Bowler Mensenberg. of Scranton, Pa., competent enough to have made one other perfect game in informal competition, responded politely to the cheers of his gallery, learned that he would get a special gold medal with two diamonds, told reporters he felt "swell." Then...
...large cast there were no individual stars, all playing their parts to perfection. Mr. Jaffee was a very vain and effeminate villain, pursuing the beauteous Miss Hoyden (Mr. Cummin), who did not care to whom she surrendered her irksome virginity. Mr. Gross made a handsome young hero, while Mr. Gaggin was a robust father of the heroine. Playing his part with feeling, Mr. Kuhlke made a fine man of doubtful virility. Also not to be forgotten were Mr. Rabenold, who was perfect as the hero's young servant, and Mr. Humphreys, who made a vigorous old nurse...
...their bluff. It was not that Mendieta was a tyrant. Most of the opposition "sectors" consider him too weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer a perfect target for a good rousing Revolution later on. Last week's weapons were the ubiquitous Cuban bomb and the dread general strike which ended the reign of Tyrant Gerardo Machado two years...