Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here in North America had half the guts and courage that the French people had through four years of occupation, this postwar peace would be assured. How many people here would risk their life and that of their entire family for a perfect stranger from some foreign land? The people of France did. They did it for thousands upon thousands of American, British, Canadian, Australian, Polish, Norwegian, New Zealand and South African airmen and soldiers evading capture between 1940 and 1944. I know because I was one of them...
...half of the picture is played with a rare amount of honest anger and courage. The local Chamber of Commerce go-getters are mercilessly rendered by Frank McHugh, Charles Dingle and Grant Mitchell; and J. Carrol Naish, who is clearly one of Hollywood's top actors, is a perfect foil for them. Yet the picture has one persistent weakness. If it were honest down to the ground, as it means to be, at least one of the boosters might have had serious misgivings...
Arleen Whelan, 28, flame-haired, green-eyed stage & screen starlet and ex-manicurist, got undivided attention from a committee of 65 illustrators, who awarded her a wellrounded, unequivocal title: "the most perfect all-over beauty of all time." Runner-up: the Venus de Milo...
...Department for the CATS embodied what to many linguists appeared rather radical ideas. They have stressed the colloquial form of languages studied, and have demanded ability to speak the language fluently, accurately, and with an acceptable approximation to a native pronunciation. The War Department, moreover, wants practically perfect auditory comprehension of the language as spoken by natives...
Friday afternoon, Jaakko had stated that his team was in perfect condition, both inentally and physically, predicting at the same time that Brown and Tufts would kill each other off in events in which no Crimson men were expected to score. That is exactly what happened during the early events, with the Crimson coming strong at the end to sweep 24 out of 33 points in the last three races (220, 880, and low hurdles...