Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Kefauver himself relaxed, showed his daughter how to ride a pogo-stick. The country still had crime on its mind, and if half the activity of last week was genuine, it was going to make life a little less comfortable for the gamblers, extortionists, hoods, crooked cops and corrupt politicians whose faces or names flitted into view of the Kefauver committee's TV cameras. It was, of course...
...very real sense, a mirror of our national life . . . our colleges, under extreme pressure from the alumni, have become so intent upon winning football and basketball games that they use any means to gain their ends. They hire players who are not bona fide students . . . They corrupt not only the hired players but also the entire student body, who learn from their elders the cynical, immoral doctrine that one must win at all costs...
...Pendergast has the same beer-barrel silhouette as his Uncle Tom had. But whereas Uncle Tom had cast a dark, corrupt shadow over the whole state of Missouri, Jim's shadow, even in the full glow of Harry Truman's friendship, hardly reached beyond the Jackson County line. After Uncle Tom went to prison, Jim did the best he could to keep old Tom's Kansas City machine running. His best wasn't bad enough. The Citizens' Association Reform government won control of city hall. A lot of old Pendergast lieutenants joined up with mobster...
...dirty book. After his session with the grand jury, Professor Paul Engle summed up his observations. "I didn't see a book there that I thought was really obscene. I think a lot of these novels are cheap, badly written books, and are a lot more likely to corrupt a child's prose style than his morals." Then Professor Engle got down to a point that really troubled the clubwomen of Dubuque: "I think if these books had come out in quiet jackets the whole controversy might not have started...
...gratifying to observe idiots crowding forward to be instructed in ignorance." He jeered at fraternal organizations ("The Improved Order of Flatheads"), composed A Rational Anthem ("My country, 'tis of thee,/Sweet land of felony"). Like many a cynic, he was an inverted idealist. He railed at corrupt politicos, fought the railroad barons, dubbed Leland Stanford "Zeland Stanford...