Word: blemishing
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...booters seemed to have definitely recovered from their slump which began two weeks before when they were tied by the Tigers from New Jersey, and which almost cost them a blemish on their undefeated record at the hands of M. I. T. last week...
...suffered so much that she has been able to say a great deal, and has become a bestseller. Her shyness arises from the fact that she was born with a nevus (strawberry-mark) all over her left cheek, and at 35 she is a recluse. Except for her blemish she is much better looking and more intelligent than her two older sisters, who have both married, though they are nasty creatures. They hate Rosamund for her success, are always borrowing money from her. Except for them, she has almost no truck with the outside world...
...prelates who asked what all the hullabaloo was about, I gave them a pretty picture of all that Father Coughlin was doing. But some objected, There is a spot on your picture. He called the President a liar.' Then I would tell them, 'We have erased that blemish.' I wiped that slate clean before I sailed for Italy. I urged him not to use expressions such as calling the President a 'liar,' because it failed to show respect for an office which deserves _______ respect. After I had discussed this with Father Coughlin he apologized...
...expect that the family budget would somehow permit them to spend a peaceful year in the graduate schools. If one reads the correct meaning into the statistics, it has taken two years for college men to become conscious of the fact that the Depression was anything more than a blemish in newspaper headlines...
...again" are past. Modern pyschology has found how greatly environment affects character, but these findings accomplish little if not put to some tangible use. America has been troubled by many uprisings of this sort and while they continue the penal system of the nation appears as much a blemish upon the banishers as upon the bannished...