Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighting Men. "The apparent unwillingness to put out information which is not favorable and laudatory is completely out of tune with their realistic attitude toward this war. . . . Our boys know we are not perfect. They know that our Allies are not perfect either. . . . The dangerous results of sugary and overdrawn propaganda should be apparent to us all. . . . Our fighting men are mad because of the false optimism of our news. . . . When suffering intensely they will hear a bland radio announcement saying 'The enemy is routed. Our losses are negligible. There is little if any enemy resistance. . . .' Greater frankness...
Mustang (North American P-51). Widely publicized by the British as the most nearly perfect aircraft aerodynamically, the PSI is one of the world's fastest fighters, has recently acquired outstanding high-altitude performance. It is a long-range pursuit aircraft, nimble and heavily armed, and one of the best in the U.S.'s superior assortment of first-line fighters...
...lifelong battle of wits, Bernard Shaw, Chesterton delighted in weaving his strictures against the unorthodox in a web of paradoxical wit. To freethinkers he said: "You are armed to the teeth and buttoned up to the chin with the great agnostic Orthodoxy, perhaps the most placid and perfect of all the orthodoxies of men. . . . I approach you with the reverence and the courage due to a bench of bishops...
...valued them all, any attempt to acknowledge them individually is beyond his power. He therefore begs his friends and hers to be content with this omnibus reply and to assure them that a very happy ending to a very long life has left him awaiting his own turn in perfect serenity...
...Work, No Woo. "Vow Girls," 350 female employes in the yard, have signed a pledge not to date any Albina man who has not perfect job attendance for the week...