Word: blemishing
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...wealthy chemical trust family, Poulenc is one of few French composers who "escaped" the Paris Conservatoire: at entrance age (18), he was in the French army in World War I. He emerged from World War II France's most popular composer, partly because there was no political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished." Now finished...
...around polling places merely kept the crowds moving (the Reds tried to slow up the voting wherever they could), and minded babies while mothers cast their ballots. Some Communist members of the election boards tried, despite hawk-eyed poll watchers of the major parties, to invalidate ballots-the slightest blemish on a ballot was enough for the purpose. (One Italian columnist implored his female readers to remove their lipstick before wetting the flap of the ballot "just as if you were giving a little kiss to a man with a suspicious wife...
Pennsylvania's floundering swimmers spiked all pre-meet rumors that they might blemish the crimson's undefeated record in the Blockhouse pool Saturday night when they succumbed to the Ulen-coached forces, 50 to 25, to become the winners ninth straight victim...
More optimistic members of the Yardling clan are already predicting an undefeated season for their high-riding hockey sextet, which boasts five ringing triumphs without a blemish for its '47-'48 efforts...
...smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind...