Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient way-subsidy, British advisers, British control-had its disadvantages and was plainly out of date. But it would be hard to raise a cheer for the new way taking its place, urged on by Arab intrigue and bribe, exulting in disorder and governed by the street mobs and those who know how to guide them...
...record of recent elections indicates that the farmer is generally eager to sell his vote to the highest bidder, and that city people are too indifferent (or benumbed) to resent this legalized corruption, even when the bribe is lifted right out of their own pockets...
Buraimi Oasis. A small but prickly thorn, the ownership of this sun-scorched cluster of eight scrubby villages (with oil riches below), has resulted in border scraps between Saudi Arabia and two British-protected sheikdoms. The British charge bitterly that the Saudis offered an $84 million bribe to one of the Buraimi chieftains. The British want the U.S. to restrain the Saudis, who have got rich quick through a yearly income of $250 million in royalties from the U.S. oil company Aramco. The State Department says that the U.S. cannot tell Saudi Arabia what...
...general election which returned the Tories to power. "The real point of the April budget," he thundered across the aisle, "was not the incentive to people to produce more, but it was an incentive to vote Conservative." He pressed home the attack: "Having bought his votes with a bribe, the Chancellor is forced-as he knew he would be -to dishonor the check...
However, Dr. Spock still insists on some rules: "Candy does a child no good, and encourages decay of the teeth. Postpone it as long as possible . . . Most important, don't offer it as a bribe for eating other foods or being good. This dangling of candy before a child keeps increasing his appetite...