Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mboya, Kenya's young leader, who is attractive to the British Colonial Office because he lacks the Mau Mau taint, who heads Kenya's largest political party, but who apparently wants power now only to hand it over to Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British hate and fear...
...would argue the Parliamentary system deserves perpetuation, in the Student Council's case, despite the taint of anglophilla. Roger M. Leed...
...they fell around the controversial appointment of Kennedy's brother Bobby, 35, as U.S. Attorney General. Among the dissenters were the liberal New Republic and Nation magazines. The New Republic felt that the Department of Justice "should be kept as free as possible from the suspicion of political taint," and darkly suggested that Bobby's appointment "will give aid and comfort to the enemies of integration." The Nation deplored Bobby's conduct as counsel for the McClellan Committee: "He engaged in personal vendettas; he made it known that he was out to 'get' named individuals...
...appointment of Senator Fulbright as Secretary of State would constitute serious mistake, according to Mrs. Roosevelt. Although Fulbright privately discribes to liberal ideas, she said, he has been unable to escape the taint of the hern segregationists...
...which his contemporaries were hardly aware of but were praised by later critics. One of the plays was burned by Goethe, who threw the manuscript into his stove because of its "damnable perversity." In all of Von Kleist's work he saw "a body well planned by nature, tainted with an incurable disease." Whatever the taint was, it was fatal. Von Kleist, whose own letters almost certainly prove that he was a homosexual, had a weakness for death pacts. In 1811, at 34, he made one with a married woman and carried it out near Berlin by shooting first...