Word: tainting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roosevelt: I have charged the present administration with government by tantrum because, among other reasons, its actions and decisions, affecting every citizen of our city, often seem to be arrived at on the spur of the moment and with the taint of political expediency. It is as if the mayor of the moment, after four years of junketing and bickering, has finally realized he needs to present a record to the voters...
...remove any possible taint of dishonesty, it should make public--or at least available--the vote totals and ballots for class marshal...
...intellectually promiscuous Asian world, the crystalline unity of Buddha's thought had scant chance of escaping the taint of temporal power...
...policies of the opposition party. If he moves to cut back social security, he will give the Socialists a legitimate issue for the 1965 campaign. In either case, he would need consummate political skill to manuever around his opponents and toward his policies. He has shown distinct reluctance to taint his hands with such manuevers, but he will have to. The cry of "let the Fat Man handle it" will surely be repeated. It is not so sure that he will want...
They fed her to the M-G-M dentist, who inspected her even and shining teeth and found two infinitesimal spaces, which he capped. Seven different ways they set her hair, decided on one of them, and lightened it beyond all taint of nature...