Word: blots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Sloane, white-faced, turned on the jury: "Ladies of the jury," he said, "I tremble at what you did. One of the great bulwarks of our country is the jury system. Every little blot on that system -and this verdict is a blot on it-if continued and added to will gather into a great darkness. I dismiss you with a censure of this miscarriage of justice...
...Like them or not, modern houses are here to stay." That is not true. The so-called modern house is an ugly blot on a fine tradition, and like any infectious disease will pass away...
...this, Menzel directs a cone-roofed observatory in Colorado, and a new station in New Mexico, close to the site of the first atom bomb. The observatories are equipped with spectrohelioscopes-- astronomical X-ray machines that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes, which blot out the sun like an eclipse, so that the other corona can be watched. Menzel went west a few months ago to spend all his time at the solar stations, on the Astronomy Department's biggest project...
Nevertheless, Kalaupapa, operated for the last 84 years as a self-supporting isolation colony, has fallen behind the times. Hawaii's bumbling Governor Ingram M. Stainback, onetime lawyer from Tennessee, now calls it "a blot upon Hawaii's good name." Last week he asked the Territorial Legislature to erase the blot by closing out the colony at Kalaupapa. There are now only 248 patients there; at the peak, in 1890, there were 1,100. Compulsory segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance...
...couldn't be done about Russian soldiers molesting German women. Said the commandant: "Always carry some ink with you. In case of distress, pour it over the soldier's clothes. Since every soldier has but one uniform, I can easily find out the culprit from the ink blot...