Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans take leave of an extraordinary year, they can recall endless days when the front pages of their daily newspapers seemed to suggest that everything - and everyone - is corrupt...
...authority spoke in plummy, assured tones? Historians, whose occupational peculiarity is to find the past at least as interesting as the present, are certain to rank Watergate paramount on any list of presidential misdeeds, but that is not to say that they will regard the present as more corrupt than earlier times. In fact, less so. To think otherwise is to fail to appreciate the high savor of Boss Tweed's New York or General Grant's America...
Still, the Rt. Rev. Richard S. Emrich, retired Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, cautions against overemphasizing the idea that "an evil system is corrupting good men." In Watergate, Emrich believes, "we are facing a more profound truth-that men corrupt good institutions, that the corruption must be traced back to the human heart...
Markezinis, the prime minister of the Papadopoulos regime, a politician of the past, accused "the corrupt politicians" of the decade before Papadopoulos of inciting the riots against the regime. He asserted his confidence in the program of return to normalcy by Papadopoulos and concluded...
...visit to Harvard two weeks ago, Senator McGovern was asked why he was no longer saying day after day that this was the most corrupt administration in American history. He replied: "I don't need to say it anymore; everyone knows it." The Congress does know it; the American people know it. Now the question is whether they will do something about it--or accept a Watergate mythology which expects nothing more of government than the unworthy and shameful record of the Nixon years...