Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, he pasted a neat miniature of Molotov in his album: "Cannonball head . . . comprehending eyes . . . slab face ... a man of outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness ... I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot . . . His smile of Siberian winter, his carefully-measured and often wise words, his affable demeanor, combined to make him the perfect agent of Soviet policy in a deadly world . . . Havoc and ruin had been around him all his days . . . How glad I am at the end of my life not to have had to endure...
...Hampshire's Jayvee baseball team didn't even come close to snapping the Crimson's seven-game streak yesterday on Soldiers Field. Indeed, like a perfect visitor, it bowed politely before the four-hit pitching of Langdon Clay and became a 10 to 2 victim...
Beady little eyes and perfect features--that's what makes an excellent shrunken human head, according to R. Victor Moran '50 who is now willing to pay as much as $80 for a truly good specimen...
...come . . . [but] excitement caused by the recent appearance of the Kinsey Report has suddenly brought most of these doubtful factors into a maturity of public interest. . ." Sample spicy headings in Lockridge's work: "What a Man Expects of a Mistress," "Good Women Not as Skillful as Prostitutes," "The Perfect Wedding Night," "A Frenchman's Experience...
...students in English A-1, Ciardi is just about the perfect writing coach. Affable, sincerely interested, seldom contesting his students' aims but dealing with their methods and treatment, Ciardi's criticism of the short stories that make up the bulk of the courses is often a formulation of the writer's own vague misgivings, and hardly ever clashes with the writer's own standards and opinions. Ciardi tries to steer his students down the middle road. Personal standards are indispensible; but on the other hand, the "purpose of writing is to be read" and prose must be communicative...