Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ZOMO members are often country dwellers, generally poor and with only six to eight years of education. Some are convicted felons. Says a Polish exile: "If someone has a criminal background, the authorities might say, 'Okay, we'll forget that little blemish if you give us a year in ZOMO.' " The selection process is said to favor brawny youths who in some fashion feel alienated from society. ZOMO members are generally kept apart from the people they are being trained to subdue. They live in their own barracks outside major Polish cities and enjoy special privileges, including...
...Crimson enjoyed a phenomenally successful season, capturing the Ivy League regular season title, winning the Ivy post-season tournament, and playing to a tie with Cortland State for the EAIAW title. UMass provided the Crimson with its only blemish and defeat...
...Kirkland pucksters ended the regular season with the only blemish on its 7-1 record coming from the sticks of Eliot House, which Kirkland overcame 2-1 in the finals of the championship tourney...
...dual meets stretched across nearly four full seasons as a member of the Crimson's awesome aqua-squadron, co-captain Geoff Seelen has swum in only one losing effort. That lone blemish--a 65-48 upset at the hands of arch-rival Princeton--is not something Seelen takes lightly...
...They insisted that he had authorized the break-ins. To try to prove that Gray had that power, defense lawyers put five former Attorneys General and Richard Nixon on the stand. Though Judge Bryant did not explain his sentences, he may have decided that what Felt called the "serious blemish" of conviction was nearly ample punishment. Bryant, says Deputy Attorney General Charles Renfrew, "apparently felt that they had been punished and that the message had gone out that constitutional rights would be protected, even from those at the highest level...