Word: tarnish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, when the price of gold skyrocketed, leading class-ring companies were ready with nickel, chrome and stainless-steel substitutes. In an attempt to retain some glamour, manufacturers have given the alloys exotic trade names like Ultrium and Siladium. Salesmen now proudly point out that the gold substitutes resist tarnish or dents and will not leave rings around the finger. Says R. Lyman Wood, group vice president of Lenox Inc., an industry leader: "You can drop it or step on it. You can even wear it playing football...
...captain of this season's undefeated men's squash team has yet to lose an individual match in his four-year varsity career, and isn't likely to tarnish that record Saturday afternoon when Harvard faces defending national champion Princeton at Hemenway. The showdown promises to be the racquetmen's sternest test, and the winner will have an inside track to the national title...
...abandoned by dozens of its Third World friends. By week's end it had become clear that, though the invasion of Afghanistan had stunned the world, the world's reaction had startled the Kremlin. A drive to boycott the Moscow Olympics was gathering momentum, and that would badly tarnish the sports spectacle on which Soviet leaders have been counting to gain a measure of international respectability. On Sunday Jimmy Carter announced that he had sent a message to the U.S. Olympic Committee proposing that the Games be moved, postponed or cancelled unless the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan "within a month...