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Word: blotch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the decay of Ali McGraw's and Ryan O'Neal's careers since then--proof, I guess, that there is a God. Last year, as Ryan whined, "Love--(beat)--means never having to say you're sorry," the film got caught in the projector and a big brown blotch quickly bubbled over his face, smote, perhaps, by that great Film Critic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guide to Freshman Week | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...their credit, the voyagers treat their predicament with the contempt it deserves. While describing the weather to Mercier, who cannot bear to look, Camier insults it in the careful cadences of French primer prose: "A pale raw blotch has appeared in the east, the sun presumably. Happily it is intermittent, thanks to a murk of tattered wrack driving from the west before its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preparing for Godot | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...quickly proved to be Sandman, California's Charles Wiggins and Indiana's David Dennis. Sandman called the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 "one of the darkest moments in the Government of this great nation," and added: "I do not propose to be any part of a second blotch on the history of this great nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Fateful Vote to Impeach | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

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