Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electives--offered in Dramatics, Newspaper, Science, Photography, Social Studies, and Art--are also new this year. Last year the electives were Art and Music; the year before that, Current Events. While the new subjects, as Donald King '68 points out, "were intended as a bribe to make the whole program more attractive," some have been very educational...
...going to stop selling the buttons," Levy said. "We keep getting new batches all the time." The latest shipment includes "Let's Get Naked and Smoke," "Acid Indigestion -- Check Your Source," and an over-sized one which proclaims "Support Your Local Police-Bribe a Cop Today...
...boot its errors almost as far as its successes. There was the Bay of Pigs. CIA failed to interpret properly the consistent East German warnings that preceded the Berlin Wall. The agency made a foolish attempt to bribe security police in Singapore...
...chance to act on that belief came in 1947, when Sato was tapped for the Cabinet and supervised Japan's rise from the ashes of American bombing. Then, in 1953, he was accused of accepting a $55,000 bribe from shipowners, and in the uproar that followed, he resigned. Sato maintains to this day that the money was a political contribution and that he merely failed to register it according to the law. He returned to power after his former classmate Hayato Ikeda took over the Liberal Democratic leadership in 1960. Sato became Minister of Olympic Construction...
...profits. A pious fraud who prays before he preys, McCarthy is determined by deal or steal to make the charming old hotel of the title just one more link in his chain. In an attempt to corrupt Hotel Manager Rod Taylor, McCarthy shamelessly offers him Spaak as a bribe. Rod likes, she likes. In the end, the villain misses a mistress...