Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world is wicked, he spews out a book of vitriolic verses advertising his family as an archetypal clan of upper-middle-class monsters. By besmirching their reputation he established his own. But his success becomes his fate. In literature he is merely a marked-down Rimbaud who curses a corrupt society as a way of joining it; in private life he is a frightened, self-seeking, self-deceiving fumbler. The book's most moving passages are those in which Vercors shows how his hero's fear of love makes him lose the girl he should have married...
...Gambling is the stand-by and the foundation [of organized crime]. From it come the corrupt politicians and policemen, the bribes and the payoffs, and sometimes murder. If you could crush gambling, you would put the Mob out of business. You'd have them back on the pushcarts as it was in the old days...
...staff of Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, who was commander of U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. The pair chafed at the frustrating restraints imposed on "Vinegar Joe" by the generalissimo and his Nationalist regime, which they believed was fatally weak, unpopular and corrupt...
...Toward the end of the trial a newly promoted general named Nguyen Cao Ky said indignantly: "As I listen to all of the charges against [some of the lower-ranking] generals-dirty, sleeping with the wives of the soldiers, corrupt, disloyal, dishonest-I think we should get rid of them." The performance reflects so favorably on Ky. who is also a candidate for the presidency, that some cynics have suggested he might have had a hand in leaking the documents...
During his administration, he increased the budget from $1,000,000 to more than $65.2 million, and began a road and rail system. But these achievements came at the price of doing away with a free press, stifling all official opposition and maintaining a docile, corrupt civil service. Under his rule, Liberia's economy remained largely the preserve of the Firestone Co. As events following his death showed, the country is firmly adhering to the rule of law-at least for the moment. Under the U.S.-style constitution, the leadership was peaceably handed over to Vice President William...