Word: tainting
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...come, too, to sell Manuel Roxas, and unsell the notion, widely propagated by U.S. Communists and proCommunists, that he carried a collaborationist taint from serving in a Jap puppet government. With him he brought the testimonial of General Douglas MacArthur, who said "consistently anti-Japanese . . . during . . . Bataan and Corregidor. . . . One of my most trusted and devoted officers." Then U.S. Navy Commander Charles ("Chick") Parsons gave conclusive evidence of Roxas' loyalty. He told of submarine trips he had made to contact Roxas during the Japanese occupation and to appoint him ringleader of U.S. espionage...
...pale California sunshine, chasing through the shadows of his own heart a quarry of monstrous guilt. A half-century ago, on a vacation, he crossed Lake Constance, and remembers that the Swiss shore seemed like a part of the great world, as his home was not. There was a taint (he thinks now) in that feeling; and in Lübeck, his home, more than a taint...
...same occasion six years ago. Then Molotov, justifying the Berlin-Moscow pact, pictured Russia as an island in a hostile capitalist world. In 1945, Molotov actually recognized that there were other peaceful states, although he was not ready to concede that they were entirely free from the imperialist taint...
...Reader Buffum fash himself no more; wherever it came from (authorities disagree),"doughboy" has no money taint. According to H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
...Government had become less Fascist-flavored. Pro-Fascists were maneuvered from office by Perón. Now, the most important Cabinet members next to Perón were the Minister of the Interior, Admiral Alberto Tessaire, and Foreign Minister, General Orlando Peluffo. Neither has any perceptible Fascist taint...