Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explained that this task force, composed mostly of former FBI men, had succeeded in bringing about 50 grand-jury indictments of Cosa Nostra members and corrupt public officials during the past four years of his term. But he added that "the irrelevancies and inadequacies of the criminal justice system" made it difficult to bring these indictments to fruition...
Marcos is bedeviled by enough real troubles without having to worry about imaginary ones. The November election was corrupt even by Philippine standards: just before the balloting, the government parceled out some $50 million in "local development funds" to thousands of barrio (village) leaders in $500 packets...
...French colony is one of the world's poorest countries, with 3,500,000 people and a yearly per-capita income of $40. For more than five years, northern Arabs have been ravaging cotton fields and raiding government offices in the south in an effort to topple the corrupt but pro-French regime in Fort-Lamy. Paris is so disturbed by the rebel threat that, as part of its recent Mirage-jet deal, it won Libya's promise not to support the Arab struggle in Chad...
...action, in brief, was this: Joe Mayflower-Alsop (played by Arlene Francis's husband, Martin Gabel) visits a minor-minor American embassy high in the Himalayas which is corrupt but quite content. Joe sticks his famed journalist's ear to the ground and the drums tell him "this place is boiling underneath. I can feel...
...actually wrote it. Fortunately, he makes no literary claims for it. Instead, the novel is seen as a pathology report on Charles' spiritual trouble, which appears to be a kind of moral onanism. Charles' outrage proves wasteful and leads only to death; similarly, his attack on a corrupt and hypocritical world ends up only satirizing and thus destroying itself...