Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philippine reaction to the plan has been more favorable than expected. So far the free Philippine press has placed the blame for the country's present position squarely on corrupt mismanagement of affairs by President Elpidio Quirino's government. The press has welcomed the Bell Commission as a means of lifting the country back to solvency, in spite of the many strings attached...
...Cynical Middle Age." Sometimes during those years, George, the pneumatic horse, let out some air, submerged, and took a look at life below the surface. Swimming around, he came upon some of the more curious aspects of U.S. politics. Allen discovered some corruption, but, he wrote, "the fortunate thing for America is that under our system nobody ever achieves absolute power and that we therefore do not become absolutely corrupt ... I am a little ashamed to confess that petty corruption doesn't shock me very much, because in my cynical middle age I have come to think...
...must resist aggressive moves on the part of the Russians," he said, "and Korea seems to be as good a place as any. But sentimentally, I wish I could admire the South Korea government. I'm afraid it's a corrupt police state...
...wished I had never been created. Love God? I hated Him!" The Devil visited Luther by night, and the monk-priest never doubted that he was real. In the dark night of his own soul, Luther found his own convictions: the whole nature of man is corrupt; man must be born again to be saved...
With his beliefs established, he was ready at 34 to begin his life work. In 1517 he nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. The Theses were a protest against the corrupt Roman Catholic practice of the day, of selling "indulgences" to the living for the reduction of the purgatorial terms of the dead...