Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corrupt officials hanging over from the Castillo regime were being cleaned out daily; arrests made included ex-governors of provinces, deputies, municipal counselors and the like...
Will There Be Expediency? Many an Italian wanted more than white bread from the liberators. In a letter to AMGOT an unnamed citizen of Ferla denounced the mayor, who was cooperating with the Allies yet continuing to run the town in the "corrupt Fascist tradition." The writer touched on AMGOT's biggest and toughest problem: the replacement of Fascists in a land where practically every officeholder owed allegiance to the Party...
...never had Prohibition to corrupt our attitude toward...
...clothes and college texts have great sentimental value. Unfortunately they can not be bound in pastel-pink ribbons, and filed away as neatly as love letters. Hungry moths and avid vermin are too liable to corrupt such earthly treasures. Hence they often pad the maws of ashcans and end their usefulness in dumps. For a cherished garment or a much-thumbed book, that fate is bitter. Far better to fling both clothes and texts, with a gesture of sublime extravagance, into the eager coffers of the Brooks House Old Clothes Drive which are secreted in the janitor's office...
...listeners hear the argument. One sponsor who knows better is a clothier named Conn, who has used the program for eight years. Conn likes to recall that he was once a coal miner and came up the hard way. Gentile & Binge seldom let him forget it. They usually corrupt his program with: "Come on, Conn, you're four buckets behind." Sponsors may get mad, but most of them find that this wacky kind of advertising pays...