Word: spotlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot question the desire of any government to present a spotless record of honesty and loyalty to those it serves. One may question, however, whether the type of prophylaxis represented by the Copland episode can give us a government that is clean without being sterie. While it will probably make little difference to the boozed-up bigwigs who attend tonight's concert whether they hear the music of Mr. Copland or not, many people in Washington will learn from this episode that the new government does not want anything to do with anything that is "questionable" in any way. Some...
...this research that first brought him to the Corporation's notice as a possible successor to President Lowell. He was not an obvious choice by any means, but he did meet the traditional basic requirements he had a Boston background, a Harvard degree, and a spotless personal life. Conant himself did not realize he was under serious consideration by the Corporation until one day when one of its members casually asked him his opinion of another professor who was being talked of for the job. Conant gave an enthusiastic recommendation, but as he says, it was a giveaway, a "watch...
...party of Abraham Lincoln, as it often roguishly describes itself, has maintained its spotless record. The last thing it gave Negroes was liquor for their votes in the Reconstruction era. Two days ago the Republican Senators voted, 41 to 5, to table a motion to alter the filibuster rule...
...Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue was not always a hotbed of scandal. From 1933 to 1943, it was run by Guy Helvering, a man of spotless reputation who prided himself on being rude to politicians who asked the BIR for favors...
...right, as in watching slim young men in gym suits do the running broad jump. They saw little in Helsinki to remind them of a menace ever present. As in West Berlin, the people who live closest to danger are calmest about it. Less than a dozen miles from spotless, gleaming Helsinki itself, Russian guns firmly emplaced on Finnish soil are ready, if necessary, to reduce the pale architectural spectrum of Finland's capital to rubble. "Please don't write about that," a Finnish civil servant told a TIME correspondent in Helsinki last week. "We in Finland never...