Word: spotlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baseball, after passing through its only great scandal in 1919, appointed the late Kennesaw Mountain Landis as its all-powerful "czar," and for two decades his iron hand kept baseball's escutcheon spotless. Now would seem an appropriate time for all professional sports to choose together a joint ruling committee with similar vast regulatory powers, and thus aid in keeping the final outcome of all sporting events in doubt for all the spectators...
...work stopped, however, Todd's uncompleted dikes might be washed out in the June floods. UNRRA wrung its hands and wondered which was worse: to risk disastrous floods by "China's Sorrow" or to risk hurting the Communist military position and thus sully UNRRA's spotless record of neutrality...
...Meyer Berger found George Teese, a New York Central engineer who owns a 1937 Packard, at home in Harmon on Hudson, N. Y.: "George and his wife, Rita, have a centrally heated, spotless, well-furnished six-room apartment. The Teeses don't save much . . . with prices as they are, but they live well ... a roast every day since the meat shortage ended. This year George has averaged about $600 a month. 'It's a strain, usually 16 hours a day, but a man would be a fool or a loafer not to get it while...
Kirkland House unleashed a savage first-half running attack yesterday to drop Eliot from the undefeated ranks 7 to 0, at the same time maintaining its own spotless record with four wins and no losses. Meanwhile, Leverett came fast at the end to down Adams 12 to 0 and go into a tie for second place in the league standings...
...more than half of the folders in our files (there are over 300,000 in all) contain names that cannot be found in Who's Who or in any other standard reference work. TIME'S record for getting foreign names spelled right has been none too spotless, but as this tailor-made directory moves toward completion, we expect to do better...