Word: tarnishable
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...reports that Gray had burned Watergate documents that had been given to him by Ehrlichman and John W. Dean III. Gray decided the next day that he should resign. "I said early in the game," Gray told the committee, "that Watergate would be a spreading stain that would tarnish everyone with whom it came in contact-and I'm no exception...
...vindicated Disney's vision by drawing an impressive $15.5 million to date. Cinderella, presently in rerelease, has grossed $17.5 million in four circuits. A few years ago, one Disney employee confessed that Alice in Wonderland had never been re-released because latter-day misinterpretations might tarnish the Disney image; the Caterpillar, for instance, loftily puffing on his hookah, now looks suspiciously-well, stoned...
...large, Israelis seem to share the tolerant attitude of former Premier David Ben-Gurion: he once pointed out to a husband whose wife had run off with Dayan that Lord Nelson (who was also blind in one eye) had an affair with Lady Hamilton that did not tarnish his heroic image "even in puritanical England." When Ruth Dayan complained directly to Ben-Gurion about her husband, he replied dryly that "in the case of great men, the private and public lives will often run parallel but will never meet...
However, Crimson coach Bill Cleary did not appear to be discouraged after Harvard's first defeat of the season, a defeat sure to tarnish its number one ranking. "Harvard will win in Ithaca," Cleary said confidently after the game...
...else explain the existence of so many otherwise great men of music (Horowitz, Stokowski, to name but two) among the ranks of failed Mozarteans? David Oistrakh is emphatically not one of them. His playing (that curvaceous tone especially) has a touch of the romantic, but not enough to tarnish the piquant bloom of youth that imbues all these works. Mostly, Oistrakh's way is a perfect blend of ingenious inner detail and simple, uncomplicated exteriors. That applies also to his viola playing in the Sinfonia Concertante (Son Igor takes the violin solo) as well as to his conducting...