Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is a victory of more than arms alone. This is a victory of liberty over tyranny. . . . Back of it all were the will and spirit and determination of a free people-who know what freedom is. ... Liberty does not make all men perfect, nor all society secure. But it has provided more solid progress and happiness and decency for more people than any other philosophy of government in history. And this day has shown again that it provides the greatest strength and the greatest power which man has ever reached...
...city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy lest the food and service be anything less than perfect. Houseboys brought cold bottles of beer and urged U.S. officers to drink their beer, shower, and not to be late for dinner. A sign on a factory roof, said: "Three cheers for the U.S. Navy and Army...
...Hollywood's best movie bitches (Since You Went Away), a veteran of Orson Welles's Mercury Theater and radio's MARCH OF TIME, chic, redhaired, fortyish Miss Moorehead has perfect timing, can control her voice as expertly as a radio engineer can control sound. Before going on the air with Sorry, she never takes a peek at the script, feels it would unnerve her. She acts the part without an audience; during the half hour (which is almost a monologue) wears herself to a frazzle...
Well, Hardly Ever. In Camp Funston, Kans., chosen the "perfect replacement" by G.I.s was Sioux Indian Pvt. John Nevermissashot...
...cooperation from other industries, the Institute will have quick access to all industrial discoveries having a bearing on cancer. G.M., for example, has developed an excellent infrared spectroscope, a device cancer workers use in identifying chemicals. For the future it is a reasonable assumption that the chemical industry will perfect the extraction of new artificially radioactive substances (of hundreds of possible ones only about 30 have been tried...