Word: tarnishable
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...treasonous" and a sellout, threatened last week to defy King's truce-and hopes for racial peace in Chicago-by marching into whites-only Cicero (TIME, Sept. 2) as King had planned to do before Chicago leaders met his demands. Some members voiced hopes for violence that would tarnish King's philosophy of nonviolence. In anticipation of "the tumult, riot or mob disorder" that might result from the march. Governor Otto Kerner at week's end activated some 2,000 National Guardsmen for duty in Cicero...
...Ohlinger, now 89, decided it would do no harm to publish the remainder of the interview. What if Churchill had suggested that Russia should be permitted to move into China? Considering his youth, the hour, and the amount of whisky he had consumed, the young imperialist said nothing to tarnish his place in history...
...long discussions with Lyndon Johnson, and en route she would stop in Paris for talks with French officials. "How can I say India is a great country and meet foreign leaders when violence and discord have fouled the atmosphere?" she urged the Indian people. "This is no time to tarnish the image of our country...
...petition to impose cloture, Dirksen castigated the Administration's attempt to foist "compulsory unionism" on hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers. "The basic concept upon which the whole structure of Government rests," he said, "is the concept of freedom. God help us if we impair it, if we tarnish it, if we sully it, if we transmit it to the next generation in impaired form." Mansfield countered with harsh words. He decried "the resentments, the irritations, the vendettas and the whatevers against organized labor" that had prompted the talkathon. Noting the Senate's historic reluctance to restrict debate...
Veneers of Honey. For some of the press, Candy's soft, breathless Southern accent carried conviction. "She is remarkable for her poise, her wealth, her tenacious hold on the vestiges of a vanished youth and the bouncy, unquenchable optimism with which she faces an ordeal that will surely tarnish her and could end in a one-way walk to Florida's death chamber," wrote Paul Holmes of the Chicago Tribune. "She is remarkable for an outgoing disposition that makes it appear she seeks friends for friendship only and neither needs nor wants sympathy. She is remarkable...