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With a Shovel. With sovereign continuity satisfied, the Greek court turned to mourning, and the world to taking a good look at the obscure yachtsman who has ascended the world's most controversial throne. The new King started with advantages over his deceased brother: no taint of supporting the prewar Metaxas dictatorship; a genial, democratic manner; an energetic, intelligent wife...
...help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least let us not add-by shameful flight, by a premature, hurried scuttle-at least let us not add to the pangs of sorrow so many of us feel, the taint and sneer of shame...
Granting, as one must, that there are two valid sides to this very complex argument, it serves no useful purpose to far the Crimson with a taint it does not deserve, nor to assume the utter indefensibility of a position merely because one does not happen to endorse it. Barry Golomb...
...every rabbit hutch for a possible solution to the frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...
Thus, for two domestic jobs, the President had chosen two old friends, both dull and uninspiring appointments. For two positions of international import, he had picked two Republicans-which should remove forever any small taint of isolationism that might still dog the G.O.P...