Word: spotlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human children have been treated with more cautious care. Dressed by a team of tender technicians, the little chimpanzee was togged out in spotless diaper and nylon mesh space suit, then zippered into a fitted contour couch that looked like a cradle trimmed with electronics. After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury. His cradle was fitted into a Mercury capsule on the nose of an Atlas rocket...
...Spotless robes we must prepare...
...Shakers of Hancock, Mass., meant it. They prepared their spotless robes by maintaining strict celibacy in their community of 200-odd men and women-cohabitation of married couples was forbidden, and "sisters" and "brethren" had separate entrances and hallways in their houses. They lived lives of calculated simplicity, sheltered the indigent and orphaned, and diligently tried to carry out the teaching of their founder: "Put your hands to work and your hearts...
...soon as I get a day off, I'm going to a department store. I haven't dared go near one in years." But the anonymity is not likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk...
When the Russians produce something for foreign consumption, the standards are generally high. Lileya's photography is no exception, except for a few of those disconcerting moments when film splices cause things that have been a dusky yellow to become suddenly spotless white. Now and then it is overdone, as in the opening time-sequence shot of a flower blossoming (time sequences were invented by Walt Disnovsky in the early 1900's), but the general effect is moving...