Word: blotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...splotch, a blotch...
Suddenly Li Po slammed his tiny hand onto the table, and bowls and chopsticks jumped into the air. Proudly he exhibited a black blotch on his palm. "Ha," he cried, grinning for the first time, "I have exterminated another fly." Embarrassed, his mother mentioned the Reds' campaign to destroy the four pests. Li Po broke in: "I have already trapped and killed 20 rats and sparrows and exterminated 300 mosquitoes and flies." Hsiao Ming ordered her son to go off and wash his hands. Li Po had expected praise. Wounded, he replied, "Stop ordering me about like an American...
Young Ward will have the double incentive of pitching before his father's class and attempting to avenge the sole blotch on his otherwise perfect season's record. Ward, who has won seven games already during the present campaign, lost to Yale, 8 to 2, three weeks...
Almost equally dangerous are the maladies attacking America's fruits. In his penetrating contribution "Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck," author A. B. Groves examines two significant, apple-destroying fungi. Describing these diseases, he says, "Sooty Blotch appears as sootlike spots or blotches. Fly speck makes dark spots and looks something like fly specks." If more of Dr. Groves diagnoses were taken seriously, farmers would no longer need to wonder about those funny, black things on their apples...
Disqualification in one event cost Bill Brooks' freshman swimmers five points and a victory against Andover yesterday at the Blockhouse. The loss puts the first blotch on the Yardlings' previously undefeated record...