Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corruption is the lubricant of the Iranian economy," a diplomat in Teheran once observed. Depending on the size of the pishkash (bribe), justice was bought and sold, tax rights were purchased, government jobs auctioned off, contracts given, and conscription was waived. Sporadic efforts by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to clean things up usually ended dismally in a disastrous series of acquittals, and cases dropped for lack of evidence...
...some farmers, murdering them, and stealing their cattle. During a brief interval of peace, he does the same thing and is shot for brigandage. Swiss Cheese is "The Honest Son," faithfully concealing a military payroll box after the enemy overruns his outfit. While Mother Courage haggles over the bribe price for his pardon, he is shot. At this blow, Mother Courage gives a fist-stifled yowl of animal grief and the playgoer grudgingly begins to pity her fate...
...patient, says he really does have food poisoning, starts to phone the health department. "Don't," the manager begs him. "Don't ruin me! I'll do anything you ask!" The "doctor" hesitates significantly, then inquires in a low voice: "Are you offering me a bribe...
...Sleep Well. The bribe is a dominant fact of business life in Japan, and the fiscal scandal is a frequent feature of the public prints. To this situation Akira Kurosawa, a superb director with a burning concern for social problems (Ikirn), addresses himself in this angry, ironic, sometimes unfair but always violently exciting study of corruption in high places. His story is circumstantial, but his theme is universal: turn the rascals out! A scandal breaks. The subsidiaries of a construction trust are accused of rigging bids on government contracts. Secret kickbacks are suspected; elected officials may be involved. The press...
...were being made by close labor union associates of the defendant to contact and influence certain members of the jury." Records of two special court sessions, kept secret until the trial's end to avoid prejudice, showed that one prospective juror had reported to Miller a $10,000 bribe offer. Two regular jurors had been disqualified after attempts to influence them-one of them a housewife whose highway-patrolman husband testified he had been offered help in getting a promotion by Ewing King, president of Nashville Teamster Local 327. Miller said he would soon call a grand jury...