Word: taint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although these opinions may well be somewhat distorted, there is no way on earth in which you can tell a Harvard man "Taint so," and have him believe...
...months have now passed. None of the three has been able to find employment, for the taint of subversion is upon them despite the letter, which did not arrive until long after the case had left the public eye. Even Rutman's wife, a research assistant at the school, has been fired. Though there was no question of her loyalty, the scientist under whom she was working received a telephone call from the Public Health Service informing him that his Government funds would be suspended unless Mrs. Rutman were fired. Promptly...
Herbert Vere Evatt, leader of Her Majesty's Opposition, former Justice of the High Court, former Minister of External Affairs, bears no taint of Communism or espionage, and he had little need to be involved in the hearings. But whether by design, accident or a perverse combination of both, Herbert Evatt has staked his reputation and his future on a strange and lonely campaign to discredit all that the Royal Commission and the government are attempting...
...dated a charming delight would bear a large share of the dance's expense, while his less fortunate brother, winding up with a lackluster Miss or perhaps just a straight tie, could complain only of a wasted evening--not an expensive one. Also, the Radcliffe introductions would have no taint of official rate-setting. With the Pay As You Go Plan the Key can make its needed money most painlessly--by heartfelt donations, rather than grumbling admission fees...
...political leaders. With Jose Laurel he was in the Japanese puppet regime during occupation, serving in a manner which Filipinos have come to regard as in the best interests of his countrymen. Recto, who insisted on being tried as a collaborator after the war to clear himself of all taint (he was acquitted), and Laurel both still resent bitterly General Douglas MacArthur's postwar treatment of them and what they regard as U.S. misjudgment of their wartime roles under the Japanese...