Word: staining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States must immediately suspend all cultural and economic contacts with the Kremlin despots. To hope that these contacts might bring about a liberalization of Soviet rule in the face of last week's events is not only naive, but fatuous. To continue them merely serves to stain the honor of the United States beyond earthly redemption. Laurence Krute '74 Jewish Defense League Stephen Rosen '74 Young Americans for Freedom
There had been celebrated clients before. My friend Sherlock Holmes had solved the little matter of the Vatican cameos for His Holiness the Pope, as I noted in my modest chronicle The Hound of the Baskervilles; he ad elucidated The Adventure of the Second Stain for the Prime Minister. We had also known curious cases. There was, for example, the puzzle of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant, referred to in The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; and the singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front...
...Attorney General. Richardson says that he refuses to "dignify" such assertions by replying to them. A source close to Richardson maintains that the Attorney General could not profit from the leaks involving Agnew because "they are seen as a failure within the department to observe ethical standards, as another stain on the department...
...concerned" about the reports that Gray had burned Watergate documents that had been given to him by Ehrlichman and John W. Dean III. Gray decided the next day that he should resign. "I said early in the game," Gray told the committee, "that Watergate would be a spreading stain that would tarnish everyone with whom it came in contact-and I'm no exception...
Last week the stain grew larger. NASA reported that 15 astronauts, all unnamed, were "admonished" for their parts in another commercial scheme. According to NASA, the 15 had been paid $37,500 for signing more than 30,000 stamps and postcards. If these were added to such other astronaut souvenirs as watches, medals and figurines that reached the market, the total price would be just over...