Word: blemishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prophecies have come to pass. I've got momentum now, and it's going to take a mighty force to derail me. I'm fortunate again today to have a fairly predictable bunch of games, and probably only the Princeton Yale affair could turn out to be a blemish. But Coach Yovicsin has acknowledged how difficult it often is to make such prognostications, "Hell, I don't know anything about comparing football teams." he said after the Princeton game. "I don't know how you guys predict games." he added...
...heavily guarded 13,350-ft.-high airport rather than in the capital. Then, 29 hours before Rocky was to have landed at Caracas' Maiquetía airport, the Venezuelan government asked for a postponement of the visit-most likely because President Rafael Caldera does not want to blemish his domestic "pacification program" by being forced to suppress possible demonstrations...
...dingy room in a grim penitentiary, out of my mind, I looked over at the man next to me, a Polish embezzier from Worcester, Mass. I could see him so clearly, I could see every pore in his face, every blemish, the hairs on his nose, the incredible green-yellow enamel of the decay in his teeth, the wet glistening of his frightened eyes. I could see every hair in his head, as though each was as big as an oak tree. What a confrontation! What am I doing out here, out of my mind, with this strange mosaic-celled...
...blemish in the otherwise auspicious move was the Committee's failure to recommend that parietal enforcement procedures and penalties continue as they are now. Perhaps the Committee's inaction was merely Dean Ford's way to make the proposal more attractive to the Faculty. In any case, there is no point for the Administration to initiate new proctoring procedures in an area that the Houses have learned to handle satisfactorily on an informal, flexible, and individual basis...
Brown was undefeated this year and finished with a 13-0-1 record. An early-season 1-1 tie with Pennsylvania was the only blemish on the Bruin record. Brown was unable to participate in the NCAA playoffs, although a unanimous choice, because of the Ivies' disagreement with the association over the 1.6 eligibility rule...