Word: taint
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...McDuffie analyzed cans of Grand Union tuna that he took from his kitchen shelf. To his astonishment, the first can tested at .75 parts per million of mercury, 50% above the .5-ppm level considered safe by the Food and Drug Administration. How did the mercury, an industrial waste, taint the tuna, which live in midocean? No one yet knows. But following FDA tests of Grand Union and Van Camp brands last week, thousands of cans of tuna have been removed from stores in six states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, where the tuna was originally packed...
Senator Joseph McCarthy began attacking Harvard publicly for its supposed Communist taint on November 5, 1953. "It's a smelly mess," he said of the University, "and I cannot conceive of anyone sending their children anywhere they might be open to indoctrination by Communist professors...
...purchased, artistically speaking. For Bergman, the cost of replacing the traditional Victorian furnishings with a more symbolic setting is a tendency toward abstractness. For Miss Smith, the cost of replacing the outwardly thwarted new woman of Hedda's day with a more inwardly racked characterization is a slight taint of the clinical case history. But both transactions are bargains. In place of Ibsen's now somewhat dated "modernity," Bergman's and Miss Smith's theatricality seems timelessly contemporary...
...authors. two veteran draft counselors. obviously hope their book will give draft-age readers "some control over your own destiny," But they do not let their purpose taint the quality of their research. They set out in laudably thorough fashion all the rules under which the draft registrant must play. For anyone who foresees rough relations with his draft board. the Guide's explanations of appeal procedure, classification systems. and conscientious objections can be immensely helpful...
...dismissal divided the Washington press corps, and even got a lively airing on Woestendiek's former program, Newsroom. Those who backed the firing, though not necessarily its peremptory manner, argued that if newsmen are to judge the ethics of others, they should be absolutely free of taint themselves...