Word: taints
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Referring specifically to the charges made against professors Fairbank, Reischauer, and Emerson he said, "In Washington this sort of thing can be embarrassing. There are all sorts of people who will be loath to take people who have any taint at all, no matter how ridiculous...
...Donnelly's to survive for 24 years, let alone carry a child full term. Now she has enough blood credits to last her for years. And 7¼-lb. Raymond Edwin John Donnelly Jr. can thank his father for the fact that his blood seems free of the taint...
...President James E. Walter, who had already fired one instructor for objecting to the gift, fired Treasurer David B. Eddy, who had never made any secret of his anti-Moseley feeling. Cracked one trustee about all the protests: "The only thing I have to say about the money being tainted is-'taint enough...
...captions resemble this one in that you need no knowledge of French to appreciate them. But such Gallicisms as "taut is, ant mieux" (My aunt is so much happier since she made a telephone call") cannot be fully understood except by someone familiar enough with French to know what "taint" means...
...without flaw, approaching at last--the ideal of student participation. It combines the virtues of team spirit, rivalry, and upperclass exercise. There is no better training in sportsmanship than an Ivy League goal-post riot, run on strict gentleman's rules. Above all, it has spectator appeal with no taint of professionalism...