Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herself setting out to reform them. The result was a strangely dual life that has been one of the wonders and inspirations of Christian history. Though tormented by constant bad health, St. Teresa of Avila was busy and effective in a world of power politics that was dangerous and corrupt. At the same time, she explored the paths of mystical experience as few Christians have done before or since...
...self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony Caruso); a pathetic nightclub trollop (Jean Hagen); a cynically corrupt detective (Barry Kelley...
...years of Japanese rule, the life of a conquered people had led the Koreans into venality, stealth and the habits of petty crockery. Said a Korean expatriate: "I was amazed when I returned to my country in 1945. Living under the Japanese had made my people servile and corrupt. I wanted to leave again." But almost two years of independence have made South Koreans a proud people again. "What do you think of our country? Will you come back again?" South Koreans now ask these questions of foreigners with a ring of salesmanship in their voices...
...told 50 persons that "gambling itself isn't dangerous. It's when they start to fix and corrupt that we musts stop them...
Fingold, who last year bustled an allegedly corrupt police force in Revere, cited examples of police-gambler fixes. A Boston numbers big shot blanket $1,320,000 in the year before he was arrested, Fingold said, even though his 40-man office was across the street from the police station and court...