Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final camp, Chan used his last article of wealth, a Parker pen set, to bribe his way into the prison hospital. On a stormy night he slipped out a window, climbed the fence, and raced between the guard towers. Hopping a freight train bound for Canton, Chan hid out with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver...
...finance his invasion of Ethiopia, where the thaler was legal currency, Mussolini pressured Austria into allowing him to mint the coin. To counter Mussolini, the British began minting thalers without permission. When World War II broke out, both sides furiously coined thalers to bribe African and Asian tribesmen...
...that the ecclesiastical court will try him. Merriam's critics also frown upon the downstairs services and his bypassing of constitutional appeals in favor of press-agentry. For example, Merriam's supporters called the presbytery's offer of a year's salary to Merriam a "bribe," even though this is standard practice when a pastor is removed from a church...
...fungus, the majority of Guatemala's business and professional community has long been bitterly disgusted. Corruption chokes the inflow of capital to a trickle. Anyone wanting to invest in Guatemala faces a maze of red tape that, in many cases, can be cut only by a mordida, or bribe...
...House, a publisher with a marked resemblance to Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf, who announces: "Harry Hubris and I have never met vis-a-vis, but in the aristocracy of success there are no strangers." In the end, the Yalie is so corrupted that he slips a $500,000 bribe to a California judge (Lahr) to help his sweetheart beat an indecency rap (dancing with a gorilla while scantily clad...