Word: tarnishing
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...Clean. Miki has been criticized within the party for proceeding too slowly, and independently, in investigating Lockheed-related wrongdoing. Miki's supporters counter that the real worry of many in the L.D.P. is that the Premier's careful investigation will badly tarnish the reputations of some important party figures. Party Vice President Shiina is well aware that in the public mind, efforts to dump Miki are seen as part of a Lockheed cover-up by a party that only two years ago was jolted by the worst scandal in its history-the resignation of Miki's predecessor...
...when she went in to the White House, she apparently lost much of it coming out. She has produced a work that is devoid of any political scrutiny of Johnson's trangressions in Vietnam. Instead, we find a portrait of a president deeply saddened that the war will tarnish his place in history as a great domestic leader. With Lyndon Johnson, Kearns earns an undistinguished berth among those former White House officials who expect us to agonize over the personal grief of the president who remorselessly planned the destruction of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people...
...years after it began, the complex case of Chester W. Hartman '57, one-time assistant professor of City Planning, 'continues to tarnish the lackluster reputation of the Graduate School of Design. While the school's faculty voted correctly last week to delay until next fall its ruling on Hartman's charges that he was not rehired in 1969 for personal and political reasons, every other development this semester suggests a desire to dispose of the affair quickly rather than to systematically confront the GSD's questionable past actions...
...even the decision to slow down the Observatory Hill complex can't tarnish dynamic plans for constructing the Soldiers Field complex and renovating the existing facilities. Anyone who has ever had to watch or play basketball in the IAB, or take a lap in Briggs Cage, or watched a hockey game in the quonset ice hut that is Watson Rink, will wish that the University had started this drive a long time...
...seminars largely because senior officers' talk of "nuking the Chinks" offended him; to Vladimir I. Toumanoff '46, the son of Russian nobility and author of the original SALT memorandum; to Gilbert S. Doctorow '67, who says that his present monograph on pre-revolutionary Russia may succeed in "reducing the tarnish" on the tsarist regime...