Word: blots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blot on the Record. Everett was no longer defending the Germans, most of whom he believed guilty; he was defending justice. For two years, at his own expense, Everett pleaded his case. Finally, last July 29, an Army commission under Justice Gordon Simpson of the Texas Supreme Court was set up to review the records.* The commission corroborated Everett concerning the mock trials and did not dispute or deny the rest. General Lucius D. Clay had already commuted the death sentences of 31 of the 43 condemned Germans. In Washington last week the Simpson commission recommended clemency (commutation to life...
This action, however, could not remove the blot on the record of U.S. military justice. It would remain as a terrible warning that, at times, the judges can be conquered by the forces of evil they are supposed...
...that same moment, sentries on an opposite corner of the wall rubbed their eyes. A flock of black sheep was emerging from the night like a moving blot. When the animals reached the wide moat in front of the wall they plunged in, began swimming across; yet there were no visible herdsmen. A sentry fired into the flock. One of the dark objects in the moat erupted in a geyser of flame and water. Then men on the wall witnessed an amazing thing: some of the sheep seemed to be flipping off their black wool skins and running away...
...President. The darkest blot on the Philippine idyl is the two-year-old insurrection of the Hukbalahaps* of central Luzon. Although they are led by Communists, most Huks (pronounced hooks) are still (as the Chinese Communists once pretended to be) basically discontented farmers. The main demand of the Huks is for abolition of the absentee landlord system; or, failing that, for enforcement of an already existing rice tenancy law (70% for the tenant, 30% for the landlord). The late President Manuel Roxas refused their demands, unseated seven Congressmen sympathetic to the Huks. The Philippines' fat, hard-driving new President...
That the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association should feel it wine to operate in opposition to a wisely planned system of college charity contribution to a blot on the splendid record of a leading civic organization. Francis D. Fisher