Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They soon began to. "You invited me here," she shouted, "and I'm staying." Then she began to tell them a thing or two. The school board was corrupt and inefficient, she said, and who was to blame? Well, it was a labor union bloc that ran it. Unionmen were "damn fools," she said, to support such a board. Why, only one member of the bloc was actually a union member...
Bruegel intended his Temptation of Saint Anthony (see cut) as a topical sermon. The rotting fish atop the head in the center of the picture, says Editor Barnouw, represented the Church of Rome, which Bruegel considered viciously corrupt. The half-submerged head itself was the Christian world, its mouth on fire, and in the background floated a menacing turretful of Turks. Hermit Saint Anthony turns his back on the nightmare. Ignoring the crossbowman above him, he takes comfort in the psalm: "In the Lord put I my trust . . . for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow...
...heartbeat is in its cities. This year, on the lake fronts, at the railheads, in the mountains, on the seaboards, the cities of the U.S., prospering in the postwar boom, throbbed with civic projects, civic pride, bond issues, expanding industry and trade. In old, carefree and once corrupt New Orleans, now reformed and very businesslike, the heartbeat was firm...
...Washington is well aware, the civil war is a clear-cut picture of right versus wrong. The Kuomintang, fighting a war of survival with a well organized stubborn foe, has increasingly relied on the corrupt bureaucracy, inefficient military, and the reactionary elements represented by them. The Communists rushed in with an ably led, hit-and-run army to take advantage of the increasing paralysis striking at China's economic life. By hitting at weakly held lines of communication they have immobilized most of the government troops and starved industry of raw materials...
Belief in the omnipotent effects of this cure-all reforms a corrupt mayor, causes his daughter to see the light, and returns to the Mudhens their ace pitcher after an ill-started affair with an evil member of the opposing team. Sweetness, light, and reform are spread among all the citizenry...