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With a Shovel. With sovereign continuity satisfied, the Greek court turned to mourning, and the world to taking a good look at the obscure yachtsman who has ascended the world's most controversial throne. The new King started with advantages over his deceased brother: no taint of supporting the prewar Metaxas dictatorship; a genial, democratic manner; an energetic, intelligent wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Zito o Vassileus | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least let us not add-by shameful flight, by a premature, hurried scuttle-at least let us not add to the pangs of sorrow so many of us feel, the taint and sneer of shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One Should Not Peel an Orange | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Granting, as one must, that there are two valid sides to this very complex argument, it serves no useful purpose to far the Crimson with a taint it does not deserve, nor to assume the utter indefensibility of a position merely because one does not happen to endorse it. Barry Golomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...every rabbit hutch for a possible solution to the frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terpsichorcan Treadmill | 11/20/1946 | See Source »

Thus, for two domestic jobs, the President had chosen two old friends, both dull and uninspiring appointments. For two positions of international import, he had picked two Republicans-which should remove forever any small taint of isolationism that might still dog the G.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Even Stephen | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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