Word: spotless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Takeshita last April. The L.D.P. further alienated voters, especially women, by imposing a controversial 3% consumption tax. In agreeing to liberalize agricultural imports, the party angered farmers, long the chief pillar of its support. The final straw came just weeks after Uno was named Prime Minister, when his supposedly spotless reputation was soiled by revelations of a paid affair with a geisha. "Along the way," says Katsuhiko Shirakawa, an L.D.P. legislator, "we lost sight of what the public was demanding...
...come out of the John Tower mess. The six-term Wyoming Congressman and new Defense Secretary-designate is many of the things Tower was not: a gentlemanly lawmaker whose low-key style belies his tenacity; a conservative who wins plaudits from colleagues in both parties; a straight arrow whose spotless personal history includes a 25-year marriage to his high school sweetheart Lynne Cheney, 47, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney, 48, even passes the all-important Sam Nunn character test. The Georgia Democrat hailed him as "a man of honor and integrity...
William's entire political career has been characterized by risks; and yet one Labour member was moved to comment, "Acknowledging Mrs. Williams' extraordinary ability to walk spotless through the minefield of party politics requires neither graciousness nor chivalry. It is a simple fact...
...Doors singing Light My Fire. Even the demonstrations that have become the city's most celebrated feature abroad are stylized rites of disorder, public performances in which both sides take time off for lunch and stop fighting for the national anthem. A city like Tokyo is all spotless efficiency, a city like Calcutta all riotous confusion. Seoul, in a sense, is the meeting place of the two, the place where boisterousness collides with planning. Anarchy, you might say, by the numbers...
...great clods of mud on the yellow-white carpet. Flustered, I called to the butler and asked him to do what he could with my destruction while I cleaned off my shoes in the bathroom. When I went back to the living room, scared to death, the carpet was spotless. Not a trace of a stain anywhere. The yellow glowed like sunshine. Several other guests were in the room now, chatting away raucously, as if nothing dirty had ever happened in their midst. The journalist simply stared at the place where the mud had been...