Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers started to chop down Mrs. Hawkings' trees, she told them: "We've lived in this house for 27 years and brought up five daughters here, and we can't have this sort of thing going on." The soldiers, overwhelmed by her bearing and her perfect Chinese, obediently put away their hatchets...
...comedy styles. He can deliver a gag, dance & sing, play the sappy adolescent ("If I go wit' girls, I get pimples") or ape a romantic singer ("Dance, Mrs. Resnick, dance!"). When Dean asks, "Why did you bring your car to New York?" Jerry says, in what seems the perfect answer for Jerry: "I need it here for accidents...
...Hutchinson protested that it was all unfair, but everyone knew that the lottery had been run in perfect order, and the postmaster quietly went about preparing slips for another drawing in the Hutchinson family. The kids drew first, then the parents. Mrs. Hutchinson drew the slip with the black mark...
...Yardlings. Ace Yale hurdler Skip Hill will give Charlie Durakis, Jim McLaughlin, and Bill Gelck plenty of competition. Frank Efinger, who took third in 4:19 behind Gil Dodds in the BAA mile last year, is slated to put a dont in the Crimson's near perfect middle distance and mile record although Dave Cairns, Ron Berman, Dave Gregory and company will give the Yale star a run for his money...
Male support is consistently top-level. Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart, as the crippled brother and manager of the champion, make perfect foils for Douglas. Their humaneness and concern are in sharp contrast with his simple-minded machine destruction; their relative smallness, in spite of their warmth, shows all the more his brutal greatness...