Word: taint
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...despite all this fancy filling, Victory still looked too much like propaganda. To make Victory look more like a privately owned magazine, OWI decided that it ought to print advertising to take away the Government taint. Result: a contract (prestige but no profit) with the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., to publish and sell advertising space for Victory...
...dead frog can taint the purest springs...
...also decree that, from now on, the 25th of December, formerly called Christmas, shall be celebrated as my birthday, Hitler Day: or, if you insist on the affectionate diminutive, Dölfchen Day. This will remove the Jewish taint, once and for all, from that holiday...
...widespread was the Communist taint? Ford's Harry Bennett charged that C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers were Communist-controlled. Mr. Bennett was exaggerating. A Red faction exists in the U.A.W. rank & file, but the union's top officials are definitely antiCommunist. In aircraft, which U.A.W. is also trying to organize, Communists have crept a little higher. U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas has ordered the union's new chief aircraft organizer, Richard Frankensteen, to clean the Communists...
TIME, Feb. 24, slips when it says that the two daughters of Alfonso's Queen, Victoria Eugenia, "by the implacable laws of hemophilic heredity are carriers themselves." Actually, each of them has a 50-50 chance of being free of the taint. Victoria Eugenia is a carrier having one normal X chromosome and one X carrying the hemophilia gene. Each of her children, sons and daughters alike, received one of these chromosomes and for each of them it was a 50-50 chance which one they got. If they inherited her normal X chromosome they are as free from...