Word: taint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuff from a federal judge, and some journalistic defenders immediately got nervous. "Farber ought to throw in his hand ... [There is] a ring around the collar on his white robes of virtue. It won't wash," wrote Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick. "The dollar sign has risen to taint [Farber's] martyrdom," wrote Charles B. Seib, ombudsman of the Washington Post-the paper whose Watergate reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, have made more money from investigative reporting converted into books than any other journalists in history. FARBER CASE DULLS THE EDGE OF THE PRESS'S SILVER SWORD...
...this film is an in-house job, produced by Robbie Robertson himself. While Robertson respects some boundaries of taste and discretion, the film bears the entirely self-centered stamp that characterizes the music business. If this taint is unavoidable, The Last Waltz keeps it to a palatable minimum. Nonetheless the self-consciousness of the whole effort continually strikes a negative chord. There is nothing as cheaply obvious as a singer directing his eyes and gestures solely to the camera and ignoring the audience. The atmosphere of the film is suffused with an inescapable sense of heady profiteering--remember, boys, this...
...German occupying forces have increased the harassment of Jews, and a major crackdown clearly is coming. Citizens who cannot produce baptismal certificates proving the Christianity of all four grandparents must queue up at physiognomy clinics, where quacks measure noses and cheekbones to spy out the Jewish taint...
...that pursuit by the collection agency may seriously damage their future credit rating. But the real damage, the Government points out, is to future students who need money for college. Says Leo Kornfeld, deputy commissioner for student financial assistance at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "These defaults taint the entire program and make it all the more difficult for the next generation to get loans...
...stump for candidates for Governor and Congress. The same tactic was used successfully in the 1966 election by Richard Nixon, who rose from the bone yard by crisscrossing the country to speak for candidates and build up political credits. Connally's wheeler-dealer image and milk-fund taint, which did much to frustrate his vice-presidential hopes, may well block his presidential ambitions in 1980. But Big John is so tough, resilient and resourceful that no one can count him out for good...