Word: blemishes
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...Bantams were not in the mood to let the Crimson blemish their nine-game win streak on Saturday. Harvard was not going to let its chance to solidify its ranking as No. 1 in the nation slip away. But in its toughest match yet, the Crimson also had to adjust to a new environment...
...Kessler was back in net and up to her old tricks for Harvard last night with her only blemish coming with under seven minutes to play and the game already decided. Colgate’s Krista Dermott recovered the puck after a shot ricocheted off Kessler’s pads and then rifled it past the 2008 ECAC Goaltender of the Year, making the score 5-1 with minutes remaining...
After a much-talked-about start in which the team won six consecutive games, the No. 8 Harvard men’s soccer team fell at last to then-No. 3 Wake Forest this past weekend. The loss was the first real blemish on an otherwise perfect season. Now the Crimson (6-1) must bounce back for the first time this season, facing Yale in the Ivy League opener...
...family's many biographers, Laurence Leamer, marks the hinge in the Kennedy history - where the arc swings from romance to tragedy - as the day when Joe secretly had his oldest daughter, Rosemary, lobotomized in 1941. Her retardation was a blemish that he thought he might carve away. But for the public, the shadow first fell in 1944, when the oldest, and perhaps the most promising, of the Kennedys, Joe Jr., volunteered for a dangerous combat mission in an experimental flying bomb. The plane exploded before he could bail out. (See TIME's complete Ted Kennedy coverage...
...triumph lies in the fact that he didn't let the myth stop him. His sister Eunice, who died two weeks before Ted (only Jean survives from the nine Kennedy children), did something similar with her great creation, the Special Olympics. Her father had tried to erase the blemish of a handicapped daughter; this younger Kennedy chose instead to reveal the glory behind the blemish...