Word: staining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hester is afraid of woodchucks, but the drive is hardly under way when she lets a third party kiss the blackberry stain off her lips and finds she likes it. But it is when Hester goes into an abandoned church with Matthew Avered and tries to seduce him that the real trouble starts...
...nobody is sure what-will replace the present equipment in University rooms. In the meantime, four Kirkland House students are testing the various alternatives. Metal desks and wooden ones undergo the daily wear of cigarette butts and feet. Bookshelves feel the load of heavy Government texts. Tables withstand the stain and strain of punch bowls...
...regal forebears. But a Queen, particularly a mere Queen consort, with such outstanding gifts and firm opinions was bound to have an unsettling effect on the delicate balance of Greek politics. Frederika's personal charm and many good works had gone far in Greece to wipe out the stain of her German past and the fact that three of her brothers were officers in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Her Teutonic inclination toward rigid government was not so easy to erase. Like most of her ancestors, Frederika firmly believed that monarchs should rule their countries...
...have, in our respect for priceless civil and human rights, used the federal authority, wherever it clearly extends, to erase the stain of racial discrimination and segregation...
...more intensive effort to publicize not only the names, but also the reasons for condemnation of these groups so that employers can judge the significance of membership in each specific case. By doing this, he could spare investigators many checks and might save the unsuspecting from an indelible red stain...