Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied airmen in Britain gave a perfect and prophetic demonstration of their power. Heavy night bombers, heavy day bombers, night-&-day medium bombers, long-and short-range fighters struck as a single weapon with a single purpose-the invasion of Western Europe...
...battle of Harvard Square. Others have suffered fractured bones and various versions of lumbago, but these ailments are not of a permanent nature. There's no redeeming a front tooth lost in a touch football game. Jack's only satisfaction lies in showing the boys what a perfect specimen it is, as it sparkles in solitary pearliness--in the palm of his hand...
Olga Samaroff Stokowski, concert pianist, ex-wife of Conductor Leopold, proved herself the perfect wartime dinner guest: she brought along not only her ra tion book but also her cook...
...acquire by treaty or by occupation such islands and such territories as we deem necessary to our safety. . . . We must go far afield. Dakar and Casablanca . . . must be ours in permanence. . . . We must have our own permanent naval and air bases in Iceland and Greenland. We must maintain, continue, perfect and enlarge our base on Bermuda. . . . We must make equitable arrangement if we can for the possession of the islands of the Caribbean...
...worldly Brendan Bracken, who impressed his listeners by his knowledge of what not to say as well as by what he said, made one tactless slip. Calling onetime No. 2 Nazi Rudolf Hess "a perfect nitwit," he added that he was "an overgrown Boy Scout." Boy Scouts did not like that, and British Boy Scouts formally told...