Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wobbly French press is no longer either powerful or corrupt. No foreign power can plant a campaign, for a price, in a French paper-except, of course, in L'Humanite, which sometimes reads as if it were edited in the Kremlin. Nor can government ministers phone editors, as they did before the war, and tell them what to print and what to kill...
...purpose of this terror is simply to corrupt Berlin's brain and conscience, to destroy the value Berliners put on their lives, their homes, and their city. Terror has allies. Lesser and more ordinary suffering has corroded untold values. In countless brains and consciences, all political debate is held worthless. A typical newspaper cartoon this past winter showed a child pointing to a pile of cut timber: "Is that wood for our fireplaces, Daddy?" "No, son, it is for conference tables...
...been a lot of ink spilled over the grandeur of the Missa. Bulbous-headed little men have gone around spreading the misconception that the Missa isn't really a mass at all, much less a dirty old Catholic mass. Catholic masses are supposed to be sung in monotones by corrupt priests in faraway places. But this is a philosophy; it has a profound message for the initiate and plenty of sex for young and old. As a result of all this drivel, the Missa has been turned in finale furioso of the concert stage and it has been divorced...
...ideas must emphatically mean that we do not uphold any regime abroad, no matter how corrupt, provided only that it is antiCommunist. At its best such a course would be stupidity, at its worst it would be nihilism. In any event it would simply strengthen the Communist cause. We are not-we must not be-on the horns of a dilemma of which one prong is Communism and the other prong is Fascism...
Morale and a Man's Head. Speaker after speaker took up this theme, lashed at "Mistakes, mistakes . . . Corrupt, lawless high officials have lined their pockets while the troops hunger, lose discipline and morale . . . They have transformed Manchuria into a hell...