Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, that public loyalty reflects Burma's earlier experience with parliamentary democracy, which was even more bungling and far more corrupt than the present government-by-army-officers...
...fact, he said, South Vietnam is engaged in a civil war which stems from a 25-year-old "peasant revolt against a corrupt and oppressive oligarchy." This revolt, Moore said, has continued throughout the periods of Japanese, French, and American intervention in Southeast Asia...
...looking for two letters of transit so they can escape to America and he can continue "his work." Blaine has gotten hold of the letters from underground agent Ugarte (Peter Lorre) but vindictively refuses to give them up. The situation is complicated by the intervention of a corrupt Vichy police commissioner (Claude Raines), a rival cafe owner (Sydney Greenstreet), and an evil German officer (Conrad Veidt, Warner Brothers' standby Nazi villain). But, at last, Blaine decides to do the "noble" thing, and he sees that everything works out well, if not happily...
...says Hesburgh, the hard-won image is endangered by a $4,000,000 Hollywood farce called John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, in which Shirley MacLaine and a platoon of harem houris corrupt the Notre Dame football team. Last week in Manhattan, Notre Dame charged foul play, filed an in junction in New York State Supreme Court to block 20th Century-Fox from showing the movie...
Flourishing abroad, Buddhism languished in its birthplace as the Indian monks grew rich and corrupt under state patronage. Today, Buddhists constitute less than 1% of India's population, and the faith is kept alive largely by untouchable converts fleeing the caste system. But in Tibet, Buddhism evolved into a theocracy which lasted 400 years, until the Chinese drove the current Dalai Lama into exile...