Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is not 'a fight of white against black," said Koestler. "Eastern totalitarianism is black. ... On the other hand, American democracy is far from perfect. It is grey rather than white. But for us Europeans, from Prague to Rome, your democracy, however grey, means the whole hope of survival and salvation...
Early Years. He was brought up in Owosso (pop. 8,000), where he had a perfect attendance record at school, played football and tootled the tuba in the school band. His parents were strict: they once forbade him to use his tricycle for a whole year because he had hurt himself in a fall. In his spare time, he sang in the Episcopal choir, managed a magazine route, worked in his father's print shop. One summer he spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World...
Fifth-Grade Arithmetic. To most Washington officials, Bob Lovett is the near-perfect example of the perfect executive. He made his mark in the business world. He succeeded so well during the war as Assistant Secretary of War for Air that ex-Secretary Robert Patterson once remarked: "The fact that our Air Forces achieved their huge expansion in time was due more to Bob Lovett than to any other...
...Nastiest Ole Man." Last week, hunched in the prisoners' dock, earphones clamped to his seemingly petrified bald head, his body weirdly stiffened (he suffers from arthritis of the spine and hardening of the arteries), he was still a perfect bureaucrat. His only concern was an efficient defense. He worked furiously, scribbling endless notes of rebuttal...
...vice president in charge of advertising since 1938, young George had worked hand in glove with old George in perfect ing the technique of noisy repetition (L.S.M.F.T. and the auctioneer's chant) which was credited with keeping Lucky Strikes on top of the cigarette market...