Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong man that Dave Beck has made his mark. What disturbs many a more democratically minded unionist is that Beck's benevolent but monopolistic dictatorship might eventually stifle competition, corrupt his own unions, stagnate business, and ruin the consumer...
...Power. Why the delay? The fundamental reason was the fact that the U.S. has been in psychological retreat from China ever since the end of the war. Secretary of State George Marshall had never reconciled himself to doing business with a Chinese government which he considered corrupt. Furthermore, his policy was to give Europe top priority which had been U.S. policy during the war. Right or wrong, he considered the Far East situation secondary...
Black-Market Hero. During the war Grant rides high ("I'm too old to fight, all I can do is to make a profit"). He plunges into the black market and secret deals with the Axis, is snared by an avaricious blonde whose mind is as corrupt as his, and finds in the world's agony the perfect opportunity to snatch more pleasures. At war's end, Grant, aged and decayed, passes out with fright at the unexpected appearance of an old friend whom he had cheated years back. Grant's hallucinatory harangues, much like...
Caldwell was especially good at mimicking Southern folk rhetoric, its mixture of lecherous filth and vivid images drawn from rural life, its passages of whining literalness relieved by sudden bright patches of corrupt folk poetry. His ability at recording poor white and Negro speech was, in fact, greater than his ability to make creative use of it in the framework of a novel, which is why his best pieces read more advantageously as off-center anecdotes than as realistic narratives...
...didn't give young musicians a chance, Chávez roared back. Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind." Then, last week, two out of Mexico City's three leading critics jumped in. One called Chávez "a cacique [a corrupt political boss] who dominates all musical roads." Another came to his defense: "He's still the best...