Word: spotless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago I spoiled an otherwise spotless fifth grade career by failing to produce for Miss Capponetti of Rosemont Elementary School a three-page handwritten report on colonial American shipbuilding, a topic which continues to exert an uncanny soporific effect...
...Radcliffe basketball team suffered the first blemish on its otherwise spotless record this season by losing 61-46 to a tenacious Bentley squad last night...
Breaking Bread. Clad in her spotless blue-bordered white sari, Mother Teresa, who ministers to the starving people of Calcutta (TIME, Dec. 29), was the cynosure of the congress. At the world-hunger symposium, the diminutive nun prayed over a table laden with bread, then broke a loaf of bread and invited those in attendance to do likewise to symbolize the sharing of food. To her, both the U.S. and India are in deep trouble. "There is spiritual poverty and there is material poverty," she told her audience of 6,000 faithful, "and I think each...
Following the recessional, a horse-drawn landau elegantly carried the newlyweds through the capital's spotless streets and over flag-draped bridges as some 20 bands filled the air with rousing marches, folk songs and bagpipe tunes. Lining the route were enthusiastic, cheering crowds and honor guards from more than 60 military, civic and private organizations. The long gondolalike Royal Barge, manned by 18 oarsmen in blue Navy dress, took the couple across the Strommen to a lavish luncheon for 300 relatives, friends and official guests at the 680-room Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace). Afterward, the King...
While Caril's attorneys filed petitions requesting a new trial, she busied herself at the Nebraska Center for Women, completing her high school education, reading more than 1,000 books, getting instructions in sewing, and writing a regular "Dear Gabby" column in the institution's paper. Her spotless record earned her the privilege of going bowling, swimming and (occasionally) shopping in the town of York. After exhausting her remedies for retrial, Caril began seeking a reduction in her life sentence. Three years ago, the Nebraska Parole Board, citing "her age at the time of the tragic event," recommended...