Word: blots
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...Legal and human rights experts, among other critics, have long contended that Guantanamo-where some 380 suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban captives are being held without trial, in many cases since 2002-represents a shameful blot on America's moral and legal principles. Close U.S. allies, including Britain, Germany and others, have also called for the camp's immediate closure...
...famous lines are here: "Go tell the Spartans"; "Come and get us"; and the Spartan soldier's deflection of the Persian threat, "Our arrows will blot out the sun" - he says, "Then we will fight in the shade." Herodotus: damned fine screenwriter...
...Herodotus cites the Persian despot in the midst of the battle, a line that appears also in the highly stylized screen version: “I have so many archers that their arrows will blot...
...next semester’s meetings, it is unlikely that professors will be required to be evaluated any time soon. Although this fact affects only a small number of courses—60 professors opted out of the CUE Guide last spring—the exemption remains a large blot on any claim that Harvard is trying to improve students’ academic experiences...
...League linebacker was subsequently stripped of his football captaincy and barred from playing on the football team. He will have to perform 50 hours of community service, complete an anger-management program and his current alcohol-treatment plan, and stay out of trouble until June of next year.But the blot will remain on his record, and supporters wonder how a case with an uncooperative victim could have carried on.AGAINST HER WISHESJury selection was just days away. But the judge called the parties into a pretrial conference two days earlier in an unpredictable move and effectively dismissed the charges.And in cases...