Word: blots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They violate that fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute. The hanging of eleven men convicted at Nürnberg will be a blot on the American record that we shall long regret...
...Aristocracy. Through the crag's proud centuries, a squalid village had groveled 500 feet below on the poplar-lined banks of the river Lot. (Dr. Faure's daughters regarded the village as "une saleté dégoûtante," a blot on creation...
...here," complained the Blot in a high plaintive wail...
...said the Blot, "but..." His eye caught a wisp of smoke curling up around his baggy red and yellow pantaloons. "Zounds!" he squealed. Rising to the occasion, the Jester yawned and preened himself lazily. Then, with a sudden leap, he huried the flaming sofa through the window. As it crashed to the street below, 11 of Cambridge's little red fire wagons arrived. "Obviously a case of grandeur delusions," chorused the fire fighters as they looked away blushing. "They think they're Ibisos...
...exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master; and also the sooty-haired Samson of British industrialization, which threatened to flatten their walled gardens and blot out their bits of blue...