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Word: blemishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holmes will advance to tomorrow's semifinals, meeting Andy Rice from Cornell. The two tied 1-1 earlier this year, the only blemish on Holmes' undefeated record...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Sports Wrap | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson (2-0-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) suffered the first blemish on its record, and was outplayed by the Huskies in one department. Harvard managed but four corner kicks to UConn's seven...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: M. Booters, UConn Draw Blanks, 0-0 | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

...only a slight blemish on an otherwise heartening demonstration that there apparently still exists among regular people a reservoir of affection that is deeper than the Ogallala Aquifer. Something like 75,000 people lined the streets of Columbia, which only has 66,000 residents. There were a few dissenters, of course: THE EMPEROR HAS NO BRAINS read one sign, and another said FARMS NOT ARMS. But mostly it was a greening vista of kids and parents on lawns fresh with forsythia; they were eager to show off Hickman High, one of the tops in the nation, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Trouper Plays America Again | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...that team plays for number 29 tomorrow afternoon. Crimson Coach Bill Cleary and his seniors said last night that the "Jolting at the Joe" won't blemish one of Harvard's finest seasons ever...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Two Cents Wurf | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

...from any air of promise about them but from their total lack of it. Norman and his charges are such stuff as Rocky Balboa and the Karate Kid are made of -- not to mention old Frank Capra movies. The coach is a Knight-errant, a good man with a blemish on his record that only redemptive labors can expunge. The players are few in number and woefully lacking in any natural gift for the game. Worse, Hickory's only talented hoopster has quit the squad, and the townsfolk do not care for Norman's outsider independence. All the Huskers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knight-Errant Hoosiers | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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