Word: corruptable
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...surprising that the solid citizens of Massachusetts continued to tolerate and pay lip service to the obsolete Blue Laws, as long as the stricter provisions of these laws went unenforced. After all, these same citizens have long tolerated some of the most inefficient and corrupt government in the United States...
...Bread-and-butter issues won for the Liberals. Macapagal relentlessly charged the Nacionalistas with responsibility for high prices, abuse of office, nepotism and graft. "Mrs. Garcia owns the most fabulous set of jewelry in Southeast Asia!", he told newsmen in an interview; he labeled the Garcia regime the "most corrupt" in Philippine history. The government's own figures supported the charge of corruption: an official report lists 29,717 cases of administrative graft, of which 10,869 resulted in convictions, 5,563 in acquittals, and 13,285 pending...
...Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (in Commonwealth v. Isenstadt) laid down another definition of obscenity: "A book is obscene, indecent, or impure if it has a substantial tendency to deprave or corrupt its readers by inciting lascivious thoughts or arousing lustful desires...
...quarrel in the market place. The best of these eleven stories tells how Satan ruins the nicest girl in town. Satan contrives that Lise should marry a brilliant, homely scholar who is a secret disciple of Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah who taught that the world must become wholly corrupt before it could be made pure. Lise is corrupted by her husband's obscene sexual instruction. When he finally urges her to sleep with her father's coachman, she agrees. Jealous and remorseful, the husband rushes to the synagogue and tells all. After a nightmarish trial, the bedeviled...
...singers to extol the virtues of their madness, perhaps Boston city government can pat themselves on the back for having effectively provided themselves with the same, and, at a great savings to the taxpayer since his salary is being paid by a private institution. What next -- a class in Corrupt Practices I-A? Terry M. Bennet...