Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weak-Kneed Henchman. To further assure opening-night disaster, the producers then proceed to sign up the queen of Broadway's limp-wristed directors, hire a totally mind-blown hippie (Dick Shawn) as their star, and attempt to bribe the New York Times drama critic by wrapping his ticket in a hundred dollar bill. To no avail. The show is unintentionally funny, the public floods the box office with orders, and Mostel and Wilder are floated up the river for fraud...
...incidents suggesting that hell hath no fury like a scornful child. In panic, some weak parents suddenly fight dirty, for example, having a child arrested after they find pot in his room. Equally destructive are those so worried about their own status that they hush up serious misconduct and bribe miscreants with new cars. Still others incredibly flee on vacation, leaving their kids to stage monster open-house parties. Then there are swinging parents, who even try LSD with the kids, another form of child abandonment that robs children of adult limits to test themselves against. As one hippie-watching...
Earlier this year, several Americans in jail on currency-violation charges accused Dzu of promising to spring them if they paid him $10,000 to bribe their judges. The investigation was dropped to allow Dzu to run for the presidency. The most energetic and eloquent of the eleven candidates, he daily unleashed a barrage of invective at Thieu and Ky, all the while claiming plots and sabotage meant to damage him. Consistency was no hobgoblin; he first said that he had met with Tri Quang to join forces, then denied it. He said Viet Cong sympathizers had been encouraged...
...report-and charges that Garrison has offered to bribe witnesses in the investigation, prompted New Orleans' Metropolitan Crime Commission to call for an investigation of the D.A. himself. As for Garrison, he charged that NBC was trying to "torpedo the state's case." He also asserted that NBC had offered to pay Russo's expenses if he wanted to slip away to California before Shaw went on trial. NBC News President William R. McAndrew denied Garrison's charges, but the following day Russo told a news conference that he had indeed been offered such help...
...package tablets can be bought secondhand from salvage companies that deal in equipment discarded by legitimate manufacturers. Small print shops will run off a few thousand imitation labels, with no questions asked. The counterfeiters hire chemists, some of whom are moonlighting while holding jobs with ethical manufacturers. They bribe technicians to steal punches and dies, and raw materials from the big companies. Much of their manufacturing is done at night in small plants that do an apparently respectable business...