Word: tarnishing
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...rest of your life is a hard thing to face alone, so security becomes a reason to marry. Love and lust, of course, play their parts, but, except for the luckiest couples, their roles decline about the same time as the wedding gifts begin to rust, tarnish, yellow or malfunction. And you don't have to be married to feel the strain of that imposing bond; our lives are filled with couples who hang on to each other, bored but afraid to see what else is out there, trading happiness for security. For everyone who has ever contemplated the pros...
Whatever the outcome in Pennsylvania, Jimmy Carter has some fresh tarnish on his escutcheon-with nobody but himself to blame...
Thus Byrd was shaken by last week's filibuster, which he had striven mightily to head off for fear that it would tarnish the Senate's image and kill a major part of Carter's energy bill. That fear-and a certain anger at the inconvenience-was widespread among colleagues, but Byrd managed to be philosophical about the mercurial nature of his beloved institution. "The Senate is very much like a violin," said the leader, who plays one himself. "The sound will change with the weather, the dampness, the humidity. The Senate is a place of great...
...feel truly sorry for what life seems to have done to Elvis the man. But in reality, nothing can tarnish the memories I cherish of that young, sensuously handsome, painfully individual, harddriving, soft-speaking rocker who changed my world and influenced my life so many years ago when he was there, and I was there, and the time was right for America's youth to stand up and scream "This is mine...
...glitter of Hollywood began to show signs of tarnish shortly before World War II, when studios-and their owners and stars-began moving to the flossy, faddish suburbs. The original Hollywood neighborhood had deteriorated to the level of seedy respectability when hippies and a punk element, turned on by drugs, arrived in the mid-1960s. From 1969 through 1975, the robbery, burglary and homicide rates in Hollywood climbed nearly twice as fast as for Los Angeles as a whole; narcotics and liquor violations rose more than five times as fast. Last year there were 2,168 prostitution arrests in Hollywood...