Word: tarnish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skyscraper (the Chanin Building), or for that matter get an electric shock just from touching a door handle, in a city so charged with energy that the very air tingled with it?" Certainly not in drab, dreary, bombed-out London. And there are some unaccustomed small inaccuracies that further tarnish the golden glow: the PATH commuter trains from New Jersey are not officially part of the city subway system, and Van Cortlandt Park is in the Bronx, more than six miles north of Harlem...
...newly published book may further tarnish the image of the loftily motivated scientist. Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment (Random House) provides a rare inside look at particle physics, a field increasingly dependent on huge and expensive machines -- and on scientists who are as adept at fund raising and politicking as they are at probing the subatomic world. Author Gary Taubes provides that view while chronicling the research that won Italian Physicist Carlo Rubbia a share of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the W and Z particles, which transmit the so- called weak nuclear force...
After disclosures this week that as many as 10 Brown University students may have been operating a prositution ring, administrators and students at the Providence campus are saying that unfair media coverage may tarnish the school's image...
...recent years, as we've grown up, a lot of us have come to revere those three branches of the government a little less. And the squabbling going on among liberals and conservatives over future appointees to the Supreme Court has managed to tarnish our image of the justice as a man who rises from a philosophically pure world to take his just and thoughtful seat in that large pristine white building in Washington that houses our greatest court...
...Geneva ranks among the roughest and least productive in the long annals of superpower negotiations. For the Reagan Administration, which gained substantial political luster in pushing for the talks, the opening session was an ominous reminder that an acrimonious and endlessly drawn-out contest of wills in Geneva could tarnish that luster. A prolonged stalemate might also downgrade any U.S.-Soviet summit to an exercise in atmospherics...