Word: taints
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Surely you remember the Continent. But why have memories? Saunter in to afternoon tea or stretch out on the sands in toreador pants--close-fitting, high-waisted, utterly suitable for casual entertainment. Return from the beach and shed your tappa cloth: shantung in any style takes away the taint of informality. It goes anywhere in cool evenings...
...change in attitude came at the same time as a great advance in knowledge. Robert Koch isolated the tubercle bacillus and proved what Italians and Spaniards had contended for centuries-that TB is contagious. Many of the greatest authorities on the disease scoffed, and kept on insisting that the taint was hereditary or connected with climate...
Unless there is a third World War, the President added, it will probably not be too long before "some of you will wish to take up the work of the American reformer. You will be in a position to do so without any possibility of the taint of a foreign ideology...
Gabriel got into trouble. As president of the council which ran the Louvre, Frenchmen said, he had kowtowed to Pétain and the Nazis. His friends said that, if so, it was for the sake of art. But the taint of Vichy was on him, and after the war he was fired from the museum council...
...lifting of the U.S. embargo on Canadian meat and livestock, Canada made a costly stop-gap agreement to trade her surplus beef and pork to Britain in exchange for New Zealand meat that she can resell to the U.S. (New Zealand cattle are free of the foot-and-mouth taint.) Canada stands to lose up to $10 million this year on the barter, but it is the only immediate way to clear up the glut of meat on the Canadian market. Domestic meat prices have already sagged, giving consumers a temporary break but signaling trouble ahead for the country...