Word: blots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action, he concentrates so hard on anticipation and execution that he rarely knows who scores Flyer goals. That is part of his competitiveness: to blot out all else and focus on the assailant. "It's me against him," he explains. "It proves something when you make a save." Winning is something he is addicted to. "I hate losing," he says. "A good broad I don't mind. A good win I don't mind either...
...extracurricular ways and means of Wilbur Mills defy belief. His latest Foxe hunt through Boston's combat zone is a blot on the escutcheon of every Arkansan who voted for him and all who hope to see the return of honest and respectable government...
Kenneth Clark called Leonardo "the great Sphinx of art history," but he was also its great Rorschach blot. The past century has seen almost as many Leonardos as there have been léonardistes. Magus, "Renaissance man," supergay, world's first nonlinear thinker -the parade of stereotypes marches on. At one moment he struck the Victorians as a prototype of the engineer-hero, a 15th century Brunel or Edison who lacked only the omnipotent semen of capital to make his projects real. At the next, the English 19th century aesthete Walter Pater wrote of his mechanical inventions as mere...
...remarkable to note that when John Mitchell was acquitted. President Nixon spoke glowingly of the American jury system and expressed his profound belief in it; but when Ehrlichman was convicted by jury trial [July 22], Nixon called it a "blot on justice," according to Rabbi Baruch Korff...
...Attorney General and then as Governor of California, Warren wrote a record with only one indelible blot on it: his stand on the treatment accorded Japanese Americans in the hysterical months after Pearl Harbor. He became one of the most urgent advocates of evacuating all of them to inland "relocation" (i.e., concentration) camps. But, always the learner, Warren outgrew this extremist taint, and after the war's end proposed one of the nation's first fair-employment acts, "to break down artificial barriers that give rise to demonstrations of racial prejudice...