Word: staines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that throughout most of the two and a half hours of War and Peace, the historian's illusion of control is sustained. By coloring the play's war scenes with two large slide screens that at times trace Napoleon's progress across the map of Europe and at times stain the background with a dull blood red, Ayrton gives the soldiers' disordered flights a suggestive significance beyond the mere chronicling of events. And by frequently isolating the characters at opposite ends of the stages, Ayrton lends to the few joint tableaux an emotional compression that continues to ring long after...
Even after this tragedy, Marsden was reluctant to press charges against Doudet, fearing that exposure of the girls' vice would stain the family honor...
...were to have read an article in The Dartmouth after that weekend suggesting things as deprecatory and juvenile as those proposed by Savit, I would have been ashamed. I cannot help but think that the majority of Harvard students agree that Savit is naught but an ugly stain on a healthy Crimson rug. Speaking, I am sure, for all of the Dartmouth community, I look forward to seeing all of Harvard in Hanover for the next Harvard at Dartmouth football game...
Although the Democratic regulars' charges were heavily tainted by the stain of sour grapes, their essential point was at least superficially correct. Carter and his aides freely admitted having deliberately downplayed the narrow, particular issues upon which the other Democratic candidates had focused their campaigns in favor of the more general, and in the Carter camp's view, overarching issue of governmental integrity and accountability, as personified by the President of the United States. Furthermore, national polls demonstrated profound differences of opinion among Carter supporters with regard not only to their own positions on such controversial issues as busing...
...vivid when scientists produced a color picture that confirmed the appropriateness of Mars' longtime sobriquet of Red Planet. The soil seemed to consist of a fine-grained reddish material interspersed with small blue-black or blue-green patches. Many of the rocks were also coated with a reddish stain, strongly suggesting the presence of iron that had rusted in the presence of atmospheric or waterbound oxygen. Other rocks, blue-green and opalescent, reminded some scientists of copper ore. After correcting the color values on the photograph, scientists decided that the sky, which looked blue in the original print...