Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's most respected newspaper, the London Times, last week found itself a defendant in the criminal dock at Old Bailey. The charge: aiding & abetting corrupt practices during Britain's last election. Just before the election, the Times and other papers had carried, as an advertisement, a special report to stockholders by a group of British-Malayan tin companies which concluded: "The nation, let alone your valuable companies in Malaya, cannot survive if the worm of Socialism is permitted to continue...
...leading citizens to quote their favorite Bible passages. Harry S. Truman: "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad . . ." (I Kings 3:9). Senator Robert A. Toft: "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit . . . Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7: 18-20). U.S. Steel's President Benjamin A. Fairless: "Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he" (Proverbs 29:18). General Dwight Eisenhower: "When...
...study of a problem, but a strange melting together of sound in the ear, of conception in the mind, of impulse in the nervous system, of old actions mired in the memory. The most the teacher can do is to probe the body of the poem for lesions that corrupt the working of phrase, image, rhythm, tone, theme-to verify, with his limited power, whether the poem is 'true' to itself...
Phillips also noticed a tendency of the voters to accept corruption as a necessary evil. "Philadelphia has long been corrupt," he stated. "As a matter of fact, it has been badly off since the time of Lincoln Steffins, who called it "corrupt and contented...
...Boston, Rappaport contended, corruption has not been the basic issue. "Problems of the city lie far deeper than corrupt administration but, like communism, people have surrounded corruption with a sort of hysteria," he said...