Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind goes its own soaring way. Currently it is full of another concept of shelter for the human family in the form of'a great whirling blade overhead, which swishes into outer space all cold and fog and wind and rain, together with the moth and rust that corrupt, leaving the shipping clerk and his riveter wife snug and secure with their three children inside the wall-less vacuum of his dreams. If any fool objects that the neighbors can see in, there are always curtains, or something...
...commission and a Brooklyn grand jury; all week long, the two groups pitchforked up vast, reeking chunks of long-buried evidence on the rackets which bleed a third of a billion dollars a year from the world's greatest port. Amid this sensational expose of crooked politicos, corrupt cops, grafting labor leaders and swaggering gangsters in New Jersey and. New York, Anastasia emerged as a star performer despite himself. The ghost of Peter Panto, an insurgent longshoreman whose body was found in a New Jersey lime pit eleven years ago, came to haunt him-and to haunt New York...
Filipinos have a euphemism which they apply these days to corrupt practices, whether of the minor variety, as in the recent stuffing of a beauty-contest ballot box, or of the grand public crookedness which too often prevails in the islands. The word is "anomalies." It first began to be used after the war, to refer to deals in surplus war stocks. The government has even set up a special "anomalies tribunal" to try offenders. What the plain people would rather have is government free of anomalies...
Rahim, described the complete state-controlled reorganization of all political parties. Whereas formerly a "few wealthy families" ruled parliament and irresponsible, corrupt parties formed around vociferous personalities, now, by law, parties must held popular caucuses, and make periodic financial reports...
...CRIMSON said, (at Yale) "there is certainly a lot more talk about it(cheating)." This, anyway, is a step in the right direction for Yale. From your implication it follows that at Harvard there is a lot of cheating, but no one talks about it--Harvard appears to be "corrupt and contented...