Word: tarnishing
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...most notable recent screw-up was Rep Ed Markey's decision to quit the Massachusetts senate race. But it was a poor screw-up, tarnish on a shining tradition...
...chaotic caucus proceedings could only further tarnish the Greens' reputation with moderate voters. Green delegates to the Parliament, declared one speaker, should aim to "put sand in the gears." Well they may. Of the six candidates nominated by the party to stand in national elections to the Parliament this June, four of whom are likely to win seats, one is a Marxist lecturer once active in the radical S.D.S. of the 1960s, and two others have been sentenced to prison terms for publishing articles calling for political violence...
...When Emma first began to hemorrhage, Freud immediately headed for the next room to comfort himself with a glass of cognac. His additional concern was not for Emma, but for Fliess, who Freud believed he had wronged by asking him to operate in a foreign city. Masson cannot seriously tarnish Freud's reputation as one of the great minds of recent times. His theories--including those on seduction--still have much to offer. But the author does cast a harsh light on Freud's sensitivity and humanity. The Assault on Truth occasions, new skepticism of Freud's character...
...Nixon's demise two years later rubbed some of the tarnish from McGovern's defeat, and McGovern's one-man-band campaign--he has little money and is the only candidate who refuses Secret Service protection--has buffed the sentimental glare to a shine...
...fear, one suspects, of nervous col lapse. Everywhere about the place is evidence of awfully hard work, the kind of work that makes a man dream that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes to mind that Calvin Coolidge, a Vermonter, was presented with a walking cane by Vermonters when he became President...