Word: taint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the Indian test, there was a general if naive belief that nations outside the club would be constrained from producing nuclear weapons by the widespread moral revulsion against such arsenals. India's explosion, however, has removed much of the taint of going nuclear. In a wave of empathetic machismo following the test, Buenos Aires' independent daily La Opinion declared: "India is more respectable now." New Delhi insists that its nuclear "devices" will be used for peaceful purposes only, such as petroleum and natural-gas exploration. Most experts snicker at the disclaimer. "A bang is a bang...
Next morning the President summoned Gerald Ford to notify him, officially and privately, that he was about to succeed to the national summit. For the country, the worst of Watergate was finally over. There would be more trials, perhaps even startling revelations, but they would no longer taint the Oval Office. The renewal had begun...
...with only one indelible blot on it: his stand on the treatment accorded Japanese Americans in the hysterical months after Pearl Harbor. He became one of the most urgent advocates of evacuating all of them to inland "relocation" (i.e., concentration) camps. But, always the learner, Warren outgrew this extremist taint, and after the war's end proposed one of the nation's first fair-employment acts, "to break down artificial barriers that give rise to demonstrations of racial prejudice...
...Kennedy as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Franklin Roosevelt. The professor turned bureaucrat quickly became a regular at F.D.R.'s "command performance" poker games. He also became the President's favorite martini mixer (chilled glasses with lemon rubbed on the rim, and just a taint of vermouth...
...nothing sacred any more? Is there no area of American life beyond taint? Last week, for the first time in the 36-year history of the All-American Soap Box Derby, the winner was disqualified for cheating. James H. Gronen, 14, of Boulder, Colo., forfeited his first-place trophy and a $7,500 college scholarship when X rays disclosed that his car had been rigged to unfair advantage...