Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt against Colombia because of Washington's interest in an isthmian canal, Roosevelt signed treaties with Cuba and Panama providing for U.S intervention to protect the fledgling republics' independence. But T.R.'s successors also invoked the corollary. In 1909 when Nicaragua erupted in chaos under the corrupt anti-American dictatorship of Jose Santos Zelaya, President Taft sent in troops, who occupied the Central American republic almost continually until...
...century, Brown said, did Catholic historians and theologians begin to examine the intentions of the 16th century reformers instead of looking simply at the consequences of their actions. They then came to see, he continued, that the schism the reformers caused came only because the Medleval Church was too corrupt to admit the truth in the reformers' charges...
...Until the 1930s, U.S. courts generally followed a celebrated 1868 ruling of Britain's Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, whose test for obscenity-used more or less interchangeably with pornography-was the effect any material might have on a hypothetical schoolgirl, or its tendency to "deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences." This ruling, which bedeviled and outraged the literary world for some 65 years, ignored the overall literary or educational merit of a book for the adult reader...
...Since I've been on Macrobiotics, my asthma's cleared up, my headaches are gone, my back's stopped aching, and I sleep two hours less a night. The foods most people eat are dangerous for man--they corrupt the body. You might call Macrobiotics a study in human ecology. Man must eat like his environment or else he upsets the harmony between himself and nature and experiences the harmful effects of dislocation. In plain terms, he gets sick. Look at the stuff most people eat. Bananas, oranges--do you notice oranges growing in Boston? Man is naturally a grain...
...Corrupt Courtiers. After the war, Farouk increased his influence in the Middle East by founding the Arab League. Then his first marriage, to Queen Farida, who had borne him three daughters, broke up, and trusted Hassaneen Pasha died of a heart attack. Hassaneen was replaced by an unsavory crew ranging from Pulley Bey, a former Italian barber and electrician, to Kareem Tabet, a wily Lebanese newsman. Farouk was soon gambling away his nights at the card tables of Cairo's Royal Automobile Club or touring the Riviera circuit, where he rented 30-room hotel suites and sometimes dropped more...