Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world was horrified by the Bulgarian, Atrocities, and Gladstone aroused Europe with his stirring denouncement of "the unspeakable Turk." For a time it seemed that humanity would come into its own and that civilization would clean up this dark corner of Europe. But the selfish interests that prevailed in the Congress of Berlin, left the Turk unrestrained in his bloody work. Now, more than forty years later, the phrase "Armenian massacre" has become so trite that we hardly give it a passing thought...
...square deal" to those whom they seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess the radicals of the power they now have, is it just to apply their own maxims against them? "He who seeks justice must come with clean hands." J. M. WOOD...
With the great extension of state functions during the last fifty years has come an ever-increasing need for efficient administration and clean politics. This demand has not been adequately answered. Our city governments, with a few notable exceptions, have drifted farther and farther from political decency, and the national administration is too often wrapt up in a maze of red tape...