Word: corruptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians work and think with an identical image of us. It is the "war-mongers" in America who seek war, and the remainder of the citizens are "too corrupt and doped up to think for themselves." According to Soviet theory, Americans actually have little freedom...
...exactly the present system which replaced the corrupt machine of twenty years ago and brought to Cambridge a truly representative citizen government unique in any American city. Although its few but well organized opponents claim it to be "unfair," Proportional Representation (PR) ensures exactly what these persons do not want--a fair, non-party, non-primary electoral system where the individual voter can choose those candidates who most clearly embody the issues and traits which he desires in his government. Under this system, the city has made tangible progress, both socially and economically. Significant testimony to this progress...
Working with such corrupt veterans, the rookie cop would be carefully introduced to petty grafting: cadging free meals in the local restaurants, accepting daily handouts of a couple of packs of cigarettes-for resale-from bartenders on his beat. Then there were the more advanced lessons in stealing from drunks. Says Patrolman Bobbie Whaley, 32, who became one of the most skillful of Denver's police safecrackers: "A drunk, if he had dough on him, never had it when he got out of jail. If the bartender didn't roll him, the cops did. If the arresting officer...
...religious persecution in the late '20s and early '30s, The Power and the Glory follows the last functioning priest to his inevitable destruction before a firing squad. His sense of obligation to God has kept him in the country while others have fled, but he is also corrupt, a drunk, and the father of an illegitimate child. The state that hunts him down is ruthless and godless, but its socialistic ideals are presented with both sympathy and conviction...
...suggested 1) more effective corrupt practices laws and election procedure laws, 2) denial of the self-incrimination privilege when public office holders testify on their official acts (New York has such a statute), 3) stronger conflict of interest laws by which informal conversations that precede governmental favors are as punishable as formal deals...