Word: spotlessly
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...Second Army's men made camp in afternoon showers, and by night without lights-in creek valleys, on hills, in woods. They slept on the ground, ate good food from spotless mess kits, with gusto. Every creek was a bathtub where bronzed soldiers bathed, a washtub where they laundered clothes and hung them on tree limbs to dry. In bivouac and on long halts, barbers broke out clippers and shears, went to work on soldiers' close-cropped polls. If condition, cleanliness and a kind of jeering morale were the only measures of good outfits, the Second Army needed...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was once U. S. consul at Fiume, was once official interpreter at Ellis Island, speaks eight languages. Morning after the news of Belgrade's coup d'etat, he paused in a turmoil of annual budgetmaking, announced in spotless Serbian: "Zora puca bit ce dana!" (The dawn is breaking...
...tail-coated plenipotentiaries, duck-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week borrowed a nickel, pressed through the turnstiles into the subterranean maze. Donning a conductor's cap, he posed at the controls of a shiny new train, then settled back with proud satisfaction as it slithered off through the spotless white tunnel which even smelled clean. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Subway had been opened...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola's harriers stand a better than even chance of completing their third spotless season by outrunning Yale and Princeton in the annual triangular meet at 3:10 o'clock today on the Middlesex Fells Reservation course...
Otto's brother Gregor knew and trusted Hitler from the first. Otto at first preferred the straight Socialist Party, joined up with Hitler in 1925. Douglas Reed makes of the next five years a picture of spotless, struggling idealism, shows Strasser bearing with Hitler's sellouts to big business as long as possible, walking out (in 1930) when he was sure once for all that National Socialism was betrayed...