Word: staines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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that the true map of the Universe is the city of Eudoxia, just as it is, a stain that spreads out shapelessly, with crooked streets, houses that crumble one upon the other amid clouds of dust, fires, screams in the darkness...
...continuing stain of the Viet Nam tragedy left its mark. Inevitably, the issue became politicized. To some, the phrase "Operation Babylift" became associated with a government policy less noble than the words implied. Cynical suspicion mounted that the Administration was seeking to build political capital, a view bolstered by the sight of the President cradling a newly arrived orphan. "Seeing Jerry Ford walking down the runway with that baby in his arms, I wanted to throw a shoe at the TV," said Mrs. Blair Cooter, the mother of a nine-month-old Vietnamese boy adopted last year...
...wants, from Hitler to his grandmother. As for me and the majority of Chilean people, we are confident that in the long run "General Pinochet" and the junta will be considered just like another sad example of what has been called "the Latin American Gorilla," certainly a sorrowful stain for a country like Chile that has earned in 160 uninterrupted years the most solid democratic reputation of the continent. Juan L. Sepulveda
...pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing, and even its fixation on the "points" of a railroad track, emerges as a hybrid of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans" and "The Adventure of the Second Stain...
...billboard. To finance his campaign, he depends upon contributions, almost all of which he raises without the help of his father. Total tab for the primary and main race: $2.5 million. No fewer than four of his aides carefully check every donation to make sure it carries no stain of scandal...