Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very fact that you cry out now amidst carnage and despair against a far-off injustice, and the fact that TIME prints your letter, and the fact that many people will reply, supporting your views, should tell you that our national life, while far from perfect, is still good, still worth your coming back to, still in need of you and your straight thinking...
German troops in World War II have an almost perfect record of never yielding territory without a bitter fight. If circumstances now compelled them to give up this policy, the probability was that they would try to pull back in Poland and stabilize a new Eastern Front, meanwhile trying to defeat or at least to contain the Normandy invasion. Thus Germany might hope to stay in position to attack British civilian morale with robot bombs and new, secret "vengeance weapons...
Once a rival of Florence, San Gimignano had already dropped to commercial obscurity by the 15th Century, had drifted on to modern times almost unchanged, a perfect relic of Dante's Italy. Thirteen of its original 72 square towers still survived...
...while she was on the subject, "the President himself has no first-hand knowledge of war either, we might add. Like his little boy friends, Pearson and Winchell, he stayed far away from the battlefield of the first World War.* Although at that time a young man, and in perfect physical condition, he did 'his bit' as Assistant Secretary of the Navy-right here in Washington...
...Strempel (up-to-the-last-minute favorite for No. 6) and ready to marry again. Her new intended was 20-year-old Carlos Ojeda, son of Mexico's Ambassador to Argentina. A short-time Columbia student, Carlos spoke enough English to reveal that she was "the most perfect cook I ever saw; she captured me by the tummy." Cried the thirtyish madcap: "Americans say I am a Nazi spy and Germans say I am an American spy. . . . A woman's place is in the home, to have babies and be a good wife...