Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that deafness has often been, and is today, his greatest asset as a statesman. He hears what he wants to hear. After failing to hear something he does not want to hear he has been known to remark: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." If he is not in perfect health otherwise, there is no sign of it in his daily routine...
...territory-almost as many as the Germans were using over Britain. But it still remained to be seen whether the R.A.F. would be able to make night mass raids almost as expensive as day raids, and perhaps too expensive. If they did, it was likely that the Germans might perfect a similar technique, and the war in the air might become a stalemate...
...Junior Varsity race should be a "grudge" race between Harvard and Navy. For two years now the second string midshipmen have spoiled an otherwise perfect Jayvee record, and the Junior Varsity is in no mood to see a recurrence of the procedure...
...parallel with France, he decided, was not perfect. The U.S. was healthier, he believed-in a state of mind more like that of England before Churchill came in-the same disbelief in the emergency, the same confusion of objectives in the national leadership. He also decided that U.S. isolationism was exaggerated, especially in Washington, which fails to distinguish between intransigent, Nazi or Communist-inspired opposition to aiding Britain, and old-style isolationism that Americans have felt for generations and which, coming from a disbelief that America is genuinely menaced, ends the moment the danger to the U.S. becomes clear...
...present system is not perfect. Its chief defect has been it complexity and its size. Definite deferments should be give members of essential occupational groups such as doctors and chemists. The decision as to which workers are "necessary" should not be left so vague. Its aims of an army of four million has made the job of training the men in the limited time almost impossible. The cumbersome, half-trained army which we are in danger of having on our hands will give us only the "defense of depth" to which General Weygand referred so sanguinely for three days last...