Word: spotlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only word for it is the one used by acting coach Dave Hawkins: "fabulous." This year's Freshman swimmers broke every Freshman record on the books, set University and national marks, and earned a spotless 11-0 record. What's more, they beat Yale...
...Booth gained five yards, and on the next play he completed a pass deep in Harvard territory. After three running attempts left the Bulldogs short of a score, Both dropped back to the 12 and split the uprights with the three-point kick that ruined the Crimson's spotless record...
Since then three editors have tried to shape this mass into an orderly autobiography. The first version appeared in 1924, and by cutting out all seemingly offensive passages. Editor Albert Bigelow Paine tried to keep Mark Twain's reputation as spotless as his linen. In 1940 Bernard DeVoto published another portion of the manuscript. Now Charles Neider, novelist and essayist, gives what seems closest to the truth of the matter...
...Jerry Lee Lewis. I wonder how many of them, after reading your story, bothered to turn to the Education section and read how Pat Boone, a really good singer, can also win fame (and a degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia) and still be a nice guy with a spotless personal life...
...that things would never be the same again. Adams was the man who decried the influence peddling of the Truman Administration, the stern moralist who had banished Republicans from the Administration at the first hint of errant behavior, the walking book of ethics dedicated to keeping the Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble with Government agencies. Neither the secondhand reassurances...