Word: taint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the righteous were learning that their newborn revolution bore no prenatal taint of promiscuity, nor was it cursed by any desire to upset political tradition. It was a healthy little revolution; there was no need to tag it "liberal." If there had been fears in some quarters, obviously they were unfounded. All signs were reassuring to the righteous. During the week President Pedro Ramirez stepped out boldly...
...despite all this fancy filling, Victory still looked too much like propaganda. To make Victory look more like a privately owned magazine, OWI decided that it ought to print advertising to take away the Government taint. Result: a contract (prestige but no profit) with the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., to publish and sell advertising space for Victory...
...dead frog can taint the purest springs...
...also decree that, from now on, the 25th of December, formerly called Christmas, shall be celebrated as my birthday, Hitler Day: or, if you insist on the affectionate diminutive, Dölfchen Day. This will remove the Jewish taint, once and for all, from that holiday...
...widespread was the Communist taint? Ford's Harry Bennett charged that C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers were Communist-controlled. Mr. Bennett was exaggerating. A Red faction exists in the U.A.W. rank & file, but the union's top officials are definitely antiCommunist. In aircraft, which U.A.W. is also trying to organize, Communists have crept a little higher. U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas has ordered the union's new chief aircraft organizer, Richard Frankensteen, to clean the Communists...