Word: blotch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lautenberg has also hinted at another blotch in the adoring Lacey Davenport portrait eccentricity and age Himself a careful, some times dull speaker, Lautenberg last month came right out and called his opponent an "eccentric" for her habit of rambling aimlessly during debates and reducing discussions to anecdotal comparisons. His wording was strong, but his point valid. In addition, many worry that Fenwick would as best be able to serve one full term if elected, while Lautenberg 58, clearly could represent the state for longer than that...
...into Harvard's bowels. The tunnels are fairly small, approximately eight feet square on average, and crowded with pipes. The heat can be sweltering, ordinarily about 100*F but rising above 120* in the dead of winter when all steam lines are in use Damp stains and sporadic graffiti blotch the concrete walls and slimy puddles stretch along sections of the narrow passageways...
Bloch and his brother Richard launched H&R Block in 1955 by running two $100 ads in a Kansas City newspaper, offering to fill out tax forms for all comers. They spelled the name with a k instead of an h so that people would not incorrectly pronounce it "blotch." In the 1970s, the firm's growth surged when Henry became familiar to Americans as the grandfatherly figure who patiently recited "17 reasons why H&R Block should prepare your taxes," through a seemingly endless series of television commercials...
...Senate primary campaign against Frank Graham, a widely admired former University of North Carolina president. The slimy tactics, agrees Helms' friend Judge James ("Pou") Bailey, "got clean out of hand." The election is still a sour blotch for North Carolinians; white supremacy had not been an issue since the turn of the century. Helms was a Smith partisan. Graham won the primary, but without a majority, so Smith was entitled to a runoff. He was in no mood for it. "I went on the radio," Helms says, "telling folks that supporters ought to go out to his house and encourage...
...came along, special effects men would fire wax pellets filled with cosmetic blood at actors who were to be shot. When they were "hit," they would yell "ouch!" or whatever else the scriptwriter demanded. Blood oozed out and the audience usually got the point. But the pellets left a blotch on the skin, which was not realistic in closeups. Ever the perfectionist, however, Coppola wanted not only blood but bullet holes. Smith covered the actor's real skin with a false latex skin, putting both blood and tiny explosive discs in the space between. On cue the discs were...