Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominant theme was Government corruption. Where earlier he had called Nixon's the most corrupt Administration since Warren Harding, he now called it "the most corrupt in the history of the U.S." The evidence, said McGovern, was everywhere-in the Russian wheat deal, in the President's $10 million in secret campaign contributions, in the ITT affair and the Watergate bugging. Then he broadened his definition to include the war in Viet Nam, which he said "corrupts our principles." Nixon's Supreme Court nominations, he went on, corrupt the Constitution and were "the worst Supreme Court appointments...
...make things more uncomfortable, there is a strange absence of shock value in the episodes of trickery recorded by this film. While the success of such blatant exploitation is dismaying, and the number of tricks employed prodigious, the real picture of a corrupt evangelist that Marjoeprojects almost duplicates the stereotype made popular by the fictional Elmer Gantry. It is a sad but true comment that the dishonesty illumined already seems logical in the context of evangelical religion...
Well then, who had? Citing similar incidents in the past, knowing Saigonese suggested that the CIA might have used expert forgers as a means of punishing the corrupt minister, who was scarcely in a position to complain. All a forger would need in such a case would be an authentic check and a signature with which to practice, or the cipher code of a numbered account. Once that is provided, Swiss banks cash checks for almost any amount with few questions asked. As one banker put it last week...
...legal definition of obscenity in Great Britain is that which tends "to deprave and corrupt." Because this effect is difficult to prove, the committee would change the wording to that which would "outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large." It would then be up to juries to decide on contemporary standards. "Justice may be fallible," Lord Longford admits. "But opinion does express itself to the times through the jury." The report also urged that heavier fines and jail sentences be meted out and that it "be illegal to show children under educational auspices...
...star quality that made the difference. McGovern was cheered just as warmly and usually longer. Moreover, he began to get the feel of audience-tested lines. The most popular, repeated in litany: "Never again will we commit the precious young blood of this land to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship 10,000 miles away...