Word: taint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miller made a special effort to bar any juror who would regard the long sequestration as a genuine hardship. Says he: "I simply don't think that anyone who is angry or resentful will be an impartial juror. And there is the risk that he might taint the rest of the jury...
...often demanding. Consider the following passage, Fish's reflections after he has described the various "zones" that make up Harvard Square: "I pause hard at the corner then, considering whether to cross over or turn back, aware already even here in the borderland between the two zones of a taint in the air of unclear appetite, of relentless and unfocused inclination to consumption...
...that Herriot will resemble Simon Ward, the actor who impersonated him in the TV adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small. But they see a ruddy, pleasant, 64-year-old grandfather, caparisoned in jacket and tie even when stepping through the mire of cattle pens. His voice bears no taint of the Yorkshire dialect permeating his books. When someone asks him a question, Herriot replies "Aye" in the accent that betrays his Glasgow origins...
First, freedom of advertising, while often preverse in its execution, fulfills a vital function in any social democracy. In spite of the taint of money, advertising boils down to advocacy, and to deny its importance is "ludicrously and condescendingly" to defy liberal precets...
Here is the stigmata, the brand, the taint, clearly seen; the error of wearing white bucks for so solemn an evening, the misdemeanor of a soft, stammering voice, the felony of too loud and sure a tone, the atrocity of a blue suit, here sitting a couple of silent boys with slanted eyes and yellow skin, from here the man who was academically first in the class leaving in discouragement to join Prospect, and here, recurring nearly two times out of every three. Israel's immemorial face is seen; the class has 16 Merit Scholars, 10 were in trouble...