Word: spotless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolution-minded employees, an oil truck burrowed through a fierce blizzard on the Zagros mountain road from Khuzestan to Tehran. At the mountain hamlet of Zalian, the driver came to a stop. Inside a shelter, he performed the ritual Muslim ablutions. Then, barefoot, the worshiper stepped onto a spotless linoleum platform and began his prayers. Afterward, he explained that he was willing to brave the storm to get badly needed heating oil to Tehran-but not out of any love for the new civilian government. Said the trucker: "It's for Khomeini. He says our people need help...
Except for Russ Kaphan, the epee team also had its difficulties. Kaphan matched Vastola's 3-0 spotless record, using his strength to control his opponent's blades, and score repeated body touches. Rob Kaplan, on the other hand, took but one of three bouts, lacking both his usual concentration and confidence. Steve Biddle, showing his inexperience, also fell twice...
...home again--but what if you can't remember home, or what it was, like? What if you can't remember when, where, or if you were married? In a minor key, this translates into not remembering if you have eaten, eating three meals, and throwing up on a spotless Abe Beame. In a major key, it means insisting the man who is your father really died in the Boston subway fire of 1942. Either way, it's a hell of a note...
...Lester Tobin, a physician in Lynn, Mass., paid premiums on a homeowners' policy and had a spotless record for 20 years. Three years ago he switched to Royal Globe Insurance Co., and since then he has collected $2,275 on three claims-two for water damage caused by heavy rains, one for a robbery. This year Royal Globe refused to renew the policy. After Tobin's agent made a personal appeal, it renewed, but for only one year, and it raised his deductible from...
...thesis of his book is that rather than destroying or humiliating Alger Hiss, adversity has brought out his best qualities. It is a mixed picture though. "People who have an explanation for Al's behavior these days tend to see him either as an unregenerate old villain or a spotless martyr," he writes. "But I'm in a curious position and don't have to see him as saint or sinner...