Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They have the perfect man to head up that kind of attack in Stud Johnson, the galloping pillbox who wound up last year All-Southern Conference. "A player without a weakness," as his coach, Voyles calls him, Johnson is a 210 pounder who runs through, over, or around defense players, and is fast enough to out-distance most of them. His placekicks beat both Dartmouth and Navy...
...apartment in which he died was the perfect complement to his publishing business and an index to the variety of his taste. There he entertained the same people for whom he published Vogue. There to his elaborate dinners, dances, cocktail parties, came socialites, Hollywoodites, Broadwayites, statesmen, royalty. The star of a Broadway opening was as thrilled by an after-theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party...
...wage control bill. Two of the three weeks have passed, and Congress gets farther from its objective with each hour of debate. Party discipline suffers from election-year dry rot, and the farm-bloc pressure group has lined up the boys from the corn and cotton states with perfect precision...
Parker's dark sunglasses, grave face and deliberate air help his reputation as a "colorless" player. Tennis connoisseurs found nothing insipid in his management of the first two sets against Segura. Hitting with perfect length on both forehand and backhand, using always the exactly appropriate stroke, and subtly increasing the pace and angle of his shots when Segura left the court slightly open, Parker made just seven errors in two sets. Segura seemed lucky to get one game...
...perfect setup. Three thousand Summer School-incited Harvard men were the market, and the Wellesley Freshman Register was the commodity. The middle man, a crafty Junior, was set to make his first million...