Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danehy was more daring. At a council meeting he told a story of a woman who asked him about Corcoran's connection with the coalition. "She asked me if the councilors made a political bribe with Corcoran in order to pacify him," Danehy said...
Independent Leonard J. Russell, who along with Mayor Sullivan has been accused by Danehy of defecting to the liberals, said sternly, "There is no such thing as a bribe with the city manager," and warned that if Danehy "mentions this again, I will take him to Third District Court...
...Nosed Man who appears one day in a bar and speaks only in interrogative sentences, except for his first and last lines. There's a pimp called Baboon who operates out of a Chinese flophouse and acts like a henchman for a Malay lumber dealer who tries to bribe a librarian to say the book he wants to borrow is a good one. A Salvation Army preacher (name unknown) whose skin is so thick "it bends anything you stick into it" lets a man spit in his face as a condition to a donation, and later shoots himself, uttering somebody...
...excellent, most of them in several different roles, although Tom Yellin, Charles Weinstein, Jomo Schur, Kristen Wiley, and especially Mary Tisco seemed to me to stand out the most. Suki Taylor is a remarkably winning Grusha. Neal Solomon dominates things whenever he's on stage, as the profane and bribe-demanding judge whose tenure is remembered as a brief golden age of justice because he's willing to fine for atheism the rich farmers who don't like miraculous explanations for their provisions' presence in a poor peasant's larder--"I ask Your Honor," the woman, a bit overplayed...
...cold, some tins of canned fish. All of the food had to be bused in from Cochabamba, down in the valley, and hence was sparse and expensive. I decided to buy some peanuts. Not that I was very hungry; rather, I hoped to use them as a sort of bribe to entice people to talk to me. I had to establish my innocent intentions to these people who were so suspicious of outsiders. The woman who owned the store, wearing shabby modern clothes rather than the traditional bulky skirt and heavy woolen top of the Quechua Indians, handed...