Word: blemishing
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...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...
...Yale loss to Cornell ("too good to be true") has given Harvard a chance to share the title, providing it beats Penn this week and Yale the next. He will travel to Philadelphia this Saturday, confident, but with more trepidation than usual. The only blemish on his consecutive-game record came two years ago at Franklin Field when unseasonably hot weather gave him heart palpitations during pre-game warm-ups, and he sat out the contest...
Last year, an awesome Yale squad which eventually romped to the Ivy title--its only blemish Harvard's stunning 22-7 triumph--staved off a pesky Brown team at home, 13-21, in the season opener at New Haven. Saturday in Providence, the Bulldogs silenced the Bruins by the less ulcerous score...