Word: tarnish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nixon's demise two years later rubbed some of the tarnish from McGovern's defeat, and McGovern's one-man-band campaign--he has little money and is the only candidate who refuses Secret Service protection--has buffed the sentimental glare to a shine...
...fear, one suspects, of nervous col lapse. Everywhere about the place is evidence of awfully hard work, the kind of work that makes a man dream that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes to mind that Calvin Coolidge, a Vermonter, was presented with a walking cane by Vermonters when he became President...
...actions do signify the demise of an admirable trait perhaps unique to Harvard: the confidence in the institution itself to allow unscreened public displays, and trust in the undergraduates to make them. Harvard's image is strong enough that one student group's tasteless jokes will not tarnish it. The percentage of students admitted who do opt to come to Harvard, each year about 75 percent, is always the highest in the nation, and the admissions office is hardly at the point where a frank discussion of the school's rough spots will turn away prospectives in droves. It might...
...make a buy. Bobby himself, says a family friend, has been dabbling heavily in both heroin and coke for at least the past three years. According to another pal, Bobby knew he had a problem and sometimes sought psychiatric help. Over the past year, his resume began to tarnish: he flunked the New York bar exam last summer, then walked out on the test on the second go-around last February...
When the Renaissance rediscovered the originals of the Homeric epics, Virgil's reputation started to tarnish. The Greeks had clearly borne great gifts to the Roman poet. The Aeneid now looked suspiciously like a pastiche. Its first half, recounting the wandering of Aeneas and his vanquished colleagues after the fall of Troy, owed more than a little to The Odyssey. Its last six books, in which the hero wages war on Italian tribes and fulfills his divine destiny to found the Roman Empire, showed the bloody imprint of The Iliad. Furthermore, Aeneas himself, compared with the Homeric heroes Odysseus...