Word: compliants
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...Toys. Lucien is beguiled by the style in which the police maintain themselves: an elegant chateau, sleek automobiles, well-cut clothes, good food and drink, compliant women. More than the luxury, though, he likes the taste of power. Lucien receives credentials and guns, which he displays freely with a certain sullen, anxious strength. But he never entirely dispels the impression of a child showing off new toys. A police pal takes him to his tailor to buy him his first suit...
...still insisted that his decision was right, despite the outcry. But there were strong signs last week that, partly as a result of the pardon, Congress will not meekly accede to Nixon's request for some $850,000 in transition funds, as endorsed by Ford and urged by a compliant General Services Administration. GSA Administrator Arthur F. Sampson, a Nixon appointee who had never objected to any of the lavish Government-financed improvements to Nixon's San Clemente and Key Biscayne properties...
...When the Soviet ambassador called on Giscard (ostensibly to discuss bilateral economic issues), the Finance Minister called in news photographers and later pointedly declared that he intended to be the "President of all the French." It was an obvious bid for leftist as well as Gaullist support. The usually compliant French Communist Party protested that Moscow was interfering in the internal politics of France...
...real issues of 1969. The lawlessness and violence liberals complained of came mostly from the administration and the police, but even if that hadn't been so, laying exclusive stress on it would obscure the real issue--the Strike's effort to provide an alternative to the unimaginative, compliant university offered by the rationalized, centralized bureaucracy that runs things now. We still need such an alternative, and that's why the Strike is still our history and our heritage...
RESTON said in a 1965 lecture to the Council on Foreign Relations that "the rising power of the United States in world affairs, and particularly of the American president, requires not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism, as noisy but also as accurate as artillery fire...