Word: blot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greece's departure from the body was another blot on the record of the military junta that seized power 32 months ago. It undoubtedly reflected the revulsion among Greece's neighbors against widespread reports that political prisoners have been tortured by police with official approval. Council members had recently received the report of a special panel of the Human Rights Commission documenting at least eleven cases of torture (TIME...
...there are considerations here that blot out all the hesitations. The Vixen has come to town, and it's time to swallow journalistic honor and say the things that have to be said...
Unresolved Conflict. The trial failed to resolve the conflict between the two accounts of the murder. Prosecution witnesses confirmed that Samuel Saikin had threatened both Joel and Ella Jean, and two recalled his mentioning the surgery to blot out her memory. But the defense was just as strong. One witness said that Joel had complained about his father and promised "to get even" with him. More important, a gas-station attendant placed the two Saikins and the girl together on the Indiana Toll Road and produced a credit-card slip to confirm the identification...
...issue has a telling emphasis on visuals. Gone are the days (at least for the time being) when the Lampoon was staffed by good writers and otherwise cunning yuksters. The current regime is a crew of rock musicians (note the record), film-makers (the Jester-Blot saga is about that this time), and good cooks (they banquet more frequently than they publish...
Shuddering at the prospect of deadlocked elections being settled by Congress, Thomas Jefferson called the Electoral College system "the most dangerous blot on our Constitution." No fewer than 500 attempts have been made to reform the procedure, but none has ever got past Congress. Now it appears that electoral reform is an idea whose time has come...