Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Along with their various assets, however, each of the three has a serious handicap or two: Romney ("hasn't fire," Mormon); Reagan ("too conservative," "too inexperienced"); Rockefeller (party regulars don't like him, divorce). But what if some Republican daydreamer tried to imagine a Republican Governor without blemish: intelligent, telegenic, energetic, young but experienced, "progressive" yet not too progressive. As a matter of fact, the Republicans have three of these too. They are Washington's Daniel Evans, 41, who won an upset victory in 1964; Rhode Island's John Chafee, 44, who captured his third term...
...course these three do have one unfortunate blemish: the modest population of their states. Despite their impressive records and obvious voter appeal at home, they have to work awfully hard for national attention-as do Oregon's Tom McCall and New Mexico's David Cargo, a pair of attractive Republican Governors elected last November...
...Blemish on the Record. Despite only fair college-board results, his grades won him admission to the University of California at Santa Barbara. At first, Sorrentino felt he had nothing in common with the suntanned college youths who "talked about summer vacations, beach parties, things I knew nothing about." But he stuck it out and in his senior year, was elected president of the student body. After graduating magna cum laude, Joe went back into the Marine Corps for two years, feeling that "I had a blemish on my record and wanted to make up for that." He did. "This...
...only blemish on the Green slate is a narrow 5-4 loss at Yale in an earlyseason contest. In that one Dartmouth held several match points before losing the deciding...
...these children were understandably proud that their kids had shown progress. Yet, they were puzzled too. Like most people, they were under the impression that an IQ is a measure of an inherent trait called intelligence, and that it never varies; that it is either a badge or a blemish to be worn indelibly for all time. As it happens, those notions are largely myths that for years have caused parents needless concern...