Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American power came back to the Philippines today over the glass-smooth, grass-green waters of Leyte Gulf under a tropical sun coming through an ominous haze lit by yellow flashes and the blasting of guns," that message began. "It was virtually perfect weather for the landings...
...miles from the Leyte beaches. From then on, the convoy advanced as a unit, so vast it spread over hundreds of miles of the Philippine Sea. On the night of A-minus-one, the weather man announced the departure of the baby typhoon; dawn would be clear, almost perfect weather...
Significance. Because Saipan's civilians are mostly ignorant peasants from the comparatively remote Ryukyu Islands, and presumably less fanatical than civilians who will be found in Japan proper, Saipan furnishes no perfect example for the future. But Pacific forces have learned a lot about the many problems of occupying enemy territory. And the Orient can learn there that Americans are at their considerate best once victory...
...numbers, and an alien wind Comes up to the beaches, caressing The fallen sons of men of a distant country: Here, at last, the meaning and truth of freedom Opens, unsealed, before the eyes of the nations; . . . Here in the name of freedom all have been gathered Into the perfect union of purposes disunited- A brotherhood of men in the arms of death Who were never aware, in life, that they were brothers . . . Open these graves to discover The secret of liberty shoveled under the earth : Behind the curtain of flesh, as under the crosses, There is one Brother...
Long before the decade's most famous book title was lifted from this lyric, the poems of Ernest Christopher Dowson were a part of the established pattern of English poetry-"not speech, but perfect song," said Dowson's late, great contemporary, William Butler Yeats. But about the poet himself the mists of time and faded memoirs had drawn close. Little but his friend Arthur Symons' brief, exquisite biographical essay had preserved the memory of the Mauve Decade's most desperately romantic life...