Word: blemishes
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...only a slight blemish on an otherwise heartening demonstration that there apparently still exists among regular people a reservoir of affection that is deeper than the Ogallala Aquifer. Something like 75,000 people lined the streets of Columbia, which only has 66,000 residents. There were a few dissenters, of course: THE EMPEROR HAS NO BRAINS read one sign, and another said FARMS NOT ARMS. But mostly it was a greening vista of kids and parents on lawns fresh with forsythia; they were eager to show off Hickman High, one of the tops in the nation, whose...
...that team plays for number 29 tomorrow afternoon. Crimson Coach Bill Cleary and his seniors said last night that the "Jolting at the Joe" won't blemish one of Harvard's finest seasons ever...
...from any air of promise about them but from their total lack of it. Norman and his charges are such stuff as Rocky Balboa and the Karate Kid are made of -- not to mention old Frank Capra movies. The coach is a Knight-errant, a good man with a blemish on his record that only redemptive labors can expunge. The players are few in number and woefully lacking in any natural gift for the game. Worse, Hickory's only talented hoopster has quit the squad, and the townsfolk do not care for Norman's outsider independence. All the Huskers have...
...when the Senate Judiciary Committee blocked the appointment of William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Civil Rights Division, to Associate Attorney General. Five other top-echelon Justice Department appointments requiring Senate confirmation remain unfilled. Says American Enterprise Institute Analyst Bruce Fein of the vacancies: "If there's been a blemish on Meese's stewardship, it is that he has not been able to get his horses in place...
...laser can even pass noiselessly over deep scratches that would cause a stylus to make a clicking sound and perhaps get stuck. When the light encounters a blemish, the microcomputer instantly uses the material stored just before and after the scratch to cover up the missing part...