Word: corruptedness
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Music with Meals. As chaplain of the 1st Marines, Sporrer saw some of the bitterest fighting in Korea, shared the misery of the marines in their bloody, icy, splendid retreat from the Chosen Basin. There he built up his grievances against Army officers whom he accused of incompetence and claimed...
Borrowing & Inventing. Hundreds of Americanisms, Mathews found, grew out of other languages. English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose. Alaskan settlers corrupted a powerful drink of the Hutsnuwu Indians into hooch, changed hiu muckamuck, the Chinook words meaning "plenty...
He analyzes the shift of socialism from an idealistic international movement to a series of national schemes, dependent upon enforcement by the power state. Socialism has been corrupted from its originally democratic purposes and the principle of individual freedom subordinated to the mere satisfaction of economic necessities. This new emphasis...
Max Kase gave his own judgment in his "Briefkase" column: "A first blush of sympathy for the corrupted weaklings has given way to cold rage because of their lack of loyalty to school and a calloused greed for their Judas pieces of silver."
By 35, Soutine had ulcers and a reputation. He refused drinks loftily: "I must not let myself be corrupted." For months, he would not work. Then one day he would start a canvas, beginning with 40 clean brushes and throwing them aside, one by one. If all went well, he...