Word: pluperfectly
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Before the 1952 football season began, Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy, a pluperfect pessimist, glumly predicted an "awful rough season" for his green team, made up mainly of sophomores. As it turned out, Notre Dame managed to make it even rougher on the opposition...
...midnight, some of the people who had fled Texas City began to drift back. Some ignored police warnings that the waterfront was "pluperfect hell" and went down to help. Hundreds of grimy, gas-masked men, stupid with fatigue, still labored there-probing for severed legs, torsos, heads, in the red glow of the unquenchable fire. Sometimes squads of rescuers staggered for cover when a change of wind whipped the .blistering heat around. Among them was Father William Roach, of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Father Roach died with his rescue squad when, at 1:11 a.m., the High Flyer...
Please continue to give your pluperfect information on everything. It helps, when one reads your every word as avidly as I, to find such gems...
...elsewhere in his speech, Adolf Hitler belied his own pluperfect complacence by a reference to definitely unfinished business...
Only rugged, cheerful, clean-cut, abstemious young men in pluperfect health need apply. Those are the boys the U.S. Army wants for its fliers. And then what happens? After these super men fly a few years, some of them become irritable, neurotic, deaf,with stomach trouble, nightmares, high blood pressure, liable to die several years before their time from heart disease. Such a dismaying picture of fliers' occupational diseases might be put together from the solid medical handbook for fliers published last week by famed Army Flight Surgeons Malcolm Cummings Grow and Harry George Armstrong (Fit to Fly-Appleton...