Word: tarnish
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...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...
...viability of the executive committee as well as the administration's commitment to Afro-Am has been continually called into question by members of the department as well as by the visiting committee's report. In fact, some administrators speculated the report's release may tarnish the department's reputation still further...
Contemplating the rest of Mama is like reading a casualty list. At 76, Richard Rodgers is presumably too old to retire, and only he can tarnish his own honor. In recent years he has given us such faded flowers of his once gorgeous talent as Two by Two and Rex. None of the songs in this show need to be pressed in anyone's memory book. As for the lyrics of Martin Charnin and Raymond Jessel, they are, in Hamlet's words, weary, stale, flat and unprofitable...
...candidates Francis W. Hatch '46 and Edward J. King was broadcast by radio. Jackson said the debate wouldn't have been possible at the School without the Forum. But he admitted that if the Forum bore the name of a partisan political group rather than a corporation, this might tarnish its impartiality in the public eye. He does not know of any investigation by the School into ARCO's political activities...
CLASSICAL. Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (Philips, 3 LPs). Colin Davis & Co. reveal a glittering opera seria beneath the tarnish of neglect...