Word: tarnish
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...their role in the scandal has injured the entire legislature, indirectly increasing Dukakis' strength. Harrington is embarassed because his two top underlings are involved. The entire legislature has the stigma of corruption. And Dukakis, with his unquestionable ethics, shines as the daily courtroom testimony causes the legislators' integrity to tarnish. Administration officials and key legislators either declined to comment on the case or weakly denied its significance...
...Actually, what the Palestinians want most of all is the sense of national identity that would arise from statehood. Just as many Jews in the Diaspora were given a new sense of pride and hope by the creation of Israel; so also would the Palestinian refugees escape from the tarnish of being second-class citizens of nowhere if a state of their own were founded...
...currently under way in Washington. The White House cover-up to protect its guilty is still fresh in everyone's memory. Yet here is the Legislative Branch displaying, at the very least, a marked lack of enthusiasm to get to the bottom of a scandal that could badly tarnish Congress...
Jimmy Carter's first real post-election test has come in, of all places, his home town of Plains. There, at his country-plain, white Baptist church-a setting all the more dramatic because of its small scale-he had to resolve a controversy that threatened to tarnish his Presidency before it began. The issue: whether blacks would be permitted to join the church. After a membership meeting last Sunday, equality-and Jimmy-emerged as winners; the congregation voted to end race restrictions...
Hewlett's attempts to tarnish his foe by accusing him, without offering proof, of "fixing" a case when he was prosecutor and of being paid $50,000 by a law firm to run for Governor have fizzled and, in the latter case, boomeranged. The allegation simply reopened an issue Walker exploited in the primary: that Hewlett accepted $15,000 annually from a steel company while he was on the state payroll. "How else are you going to raise a family of six children and take care of a 90-year-old mother-in-law?" Hewlett asks...