Word: stains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building rises. "No one can say how, and no one wants to do it by force. But sooner or later, in a week or in a century, it will be done. And we will be ready for it." He adds with quiet urgency, "Every day's delay is a stain on the nation...
ENVIRONMENT: The stain still remains on Alaska...
...Frank affair lies in the nature of his mistakes. House Minority Leader Robert Michel (R-III.) argued that because a heterosexual would be kicked out for hiring a prostitute, then Frank should be as well. Michel called Frank a "stain" on the House and said that applying a different standard to Frank would be giving preferential treatment to gays...
Michel's words could only be taken seriously if he applied his tough standard to Republicans as well. But Michel has yet to call Donald "Buzz" Lukens a "stain" on the House, even after Lukens was convicted of purchasing sex from a seventeen-year-old girl...
Michel, answering questions at a news conference, said he was "distressed to have anything of that nature become a stain upon the House of Representatives...