Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people sit back and allow Hoffa and his gang to corrupt America's labor and laborer...
...work labor cry with his own recession-slanted back-to-work demands, California is now moving toward economic resurgence. More than that, Knowland's labor ideas, plainly stated and clearly understood, seem much more appealing in the light of a potentially dangerous West Coast strike by the corrupt Teamsters Union...
Laos will remain "neutral" but pro-Western under Phoui's ministry. The great danger is that it will also remain corrupt, inefficiently run and economically chaotic; e.g., in 1956 the tiny country exported goods valued at $3,000,000, imported goods worth $31 million. If so, the Communists under Prince Souphanouvong will be heard from again...
...found Nasser more interested in the rights of minorities and less bitterly intransigent against Israel than most other Arab leaders whom I met. Most of Washington's Arab friends in Iraq and Saudi Arabia are (or were) extreme social reactionaries: kings, sheiks and corrupt and extortionate landlords. We Americans loved anyone who professed antiCommunism, especially if he had oil property. As for Nasser, he clearly wants to be a Tito, not a Kadar, vis-à-vis Moscow...
...authors, who now live in New Jersey but still profess to be wary of retribution by Spanish agents, have taken the undoubted truths that Franco's regime is corrupt and oppressive, that the fishers and farmers are appallingly poor, and that the Spanish church is the most inflexible in Catholicism, and blurred them in something called a "documentary novel." But, encysted in a perfunctorily told story in which each character is paraded merely as a type-the grasping peasant, the sadistic Falangist, the hardy old freedom fighter-facts quickly take on the smell of falsity. And ironically, although...