Word: tarnishes
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Expulsion from the Council of Europe, which is a sort of powerless but prestigious mini-U.N., will further tarnish the prestige of the Greek regime. But it will not affect its firm hold on power in Greece. Most anti-regime Greeks and many other Europeans feel, probably naively, that a strong U.S. condemnation of the colonels would force them to either step down or liberalize their harshly autocratic rule...
...ordinary detective is a hunk of merchandise, like a gun and bullets. Anybody with enough small change can buy him. Philip Marlowe is the exception. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean," wrote Chandler, "who is neither tarnished nor afraid." Trading on the name, the Marlowe makers have banished fear, but they forgot to remove the tarnish...
...privately with dyspeptic party chiefs last week. The subject, of course, was Nixon's candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, South Carolina Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr., who was suddenly the center of an old-fashioned political donnybrook threatening to divide the Republicans, delight the Democrats and tarnish the President. All week long Washington was roiled by rumors, as Congressmen and Senators conferred with one another and the Administration, counted votes and then counted them again, examined the facts, their consciences, read their constituents' mail and weighed the choices...
...state of siege under which the U.S. defense community finds itself is no passing thing. Important segments of Congress and the public are increasingly vocal in their criticism of the size, influence and performance of the military and its industrial suppliers (TIME cover, April 11). Last week the tarnish on Pentagon brass spread even further with the disclosure that the Air Force had falsified reports about the price of the C-5A transport plane under production by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
...last week Xerox's stock had fallen a drastic 18¼ points since the September announcement, costing the company's investors a paper loss of $400 million and reflecting a widespread notion that a link with solid but unspectacular C.I.T. could only tarnish Xerox as a glittering growth stock. At any rate, there were palpable signs of stockholder relief when the deal was finally dropped. In the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange after the announcement, Xerox was bid up 6½ points to $277.25 a share...