Word: tarnish
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...Neill does nothing to tarnish the lustre of Tesla's eccentricity. A meticulous dresser, he never used a handkerchief or collar more than once, could often be seen in white tie & tails feeding pigeons on the steps of the 42nd Street library or St. Patrick's Cathedral. Because of an intense germ phobia, he never shook hands if he could help...
...Leadership, War Cabinet-it should be the leadership of the House of Commons. Stubbornly Eden stuck to his guns. If he devoted himself exclusively to the Foreign Office, he would lose valuable contacts with members of Parliament. Inevitably, then, his bright chances of one day becoming Prime Minister would tarnish. More than that, his Foreign Office job was getting distasteful...
...performed well in the Southwest Pacific, better still in Africa. But it required large-scale operation in the vast operation from England to take the last tarnish off "The Flying Prostitute...
...from his observation post. Crown Prince Umberto, who had been there at the start, had already left. Later he flew over the German lines in a tiny, vulnerable U.S. observation plane. Like his pint-sized royal father, Umberto was counting on this new army to remove some of the tarnish from the House of Savoy...
...Kelley for housewives. Not long ago, she told how to clean silverware by using a 10? pie plate made out of tin. By putting the tin plate in a larger aluminum pan and adding warm salt water and soda, the silverware, Dr. Kelley pointed out, can be cleaned of tarnish by placing it in the water so it touches the tin plate. Promptly she was deluged with silver polish samples, which manufacturers begged her to use instead of her 10? pie plate...