Word: corruptedness
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TV's standbys are the continuing situation series that keep viewers coming back to their sets at the same time week after week. Like politicians, the standbys are often corrupted by long tenure. Last week a batch of new candidates took the platform to win the weekly vote. Navy...
When De Sapio seized the leadership of Tammany Hall in 1949, he found himself in command of a rotten, rat-infested political hulk. From its days of corrupted power, Tammany stank. It exacted a heavy price in public money and civic decency for a service. To New York, as to...
Deviate. In Shanghai, after he had tried to win two girls by posing as a wealthy capitalist, Lo Heng was judged "hopelessly corrupted,'' expelled from the Communist Party.
He calls himself a democrat and a socialist and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is, ultimately, slave to the heart . . . A little twist and Nehru might turn dictator, sweeping aside the paraphernalia of a slow-moving democracy . . . Jawahar has all...
Giuseppe Sotgiu, 52, once a poor but very clever lad from Sardinia, had worked his way through school and taken a degree in jurisprudence with the highest honors. A onetime Socialist newspaperman and then a law professor, he emerged as a Communist lawyer after Mussolini's downfall, much honored...