Word: blot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them. But Kesey's lunatics and his story are full of gaiety too-including a wild ward party complete with wine, women and song. As the Chief says admiringly of Randle P. McMurphy: "He won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain...
Perhaps Mr. Nehru would realize some day that Portugal was never a threat to India's security but just a blot on the family escutcheon. The true enemy lurks in the Himalayas, and perhaps closer still in the person of Mr. V. K. Menon...
...word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage for college, and scores of others...
...current show, it is his enviable duty to plant long-lasting kisses on the ingenue, Bonnie Scott, but he recently turned on her with a four-letter snarl and added: "Blot your lipstick or I'll smear it all over your face." And at one final curtain, as the cast soaked up the downpour of applause, Morse turned and remarked to one and all (including 60-year old Co-Star Rudy Vallee): "Well, thev liked...
...made homosexual advances to the "hitchhiker," and the other two men had deliberately assaulted the Sosúa army post in broad daylight. But few Dominicans believed the official version, and perhaps (the uses of terror being what they are) were not expected to. The killings were the ugliest blot to date on the liberalized regime of Ramfis Trujillo, who took over when his dictator father was assassinated three months ago. They were also a reminder that, while Ramfis may have eased things up in the Ciudad Trujillo capital, life in the isolated back country remains as tightly controlled...