Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the muck flats around Syracuse to Lake Erie and the Pennsylvania line. They found themselves part of a statewide complex that had reacted against the political and economic power of the city. They discovered that their tax dollars were winding up in the pockets of Tammany's corrupt sachems. Many joined with native sons in one of the nation's great Republican bastions. Upstate New York can-and often does-return Republican pluralities of more than 700,000 (Dwight Eisenhower took the counties outside New York City by more than...
...Republicanism a reversal of old Republicanism that opposed New Deal legislation? "The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good. I believe it was Tennyson that said: 'The old order changeth and giveth place to new lest one good custom should corrupt the earth.'* We have gotten into the type of civilization now where the Government must interest itself more in the old age security, in unemployment insurance, and all that sort of thing . . . I believe in it, I stand for it, and I don't care who brought...
...failure ("They meant to defend a Thermopylae, but there was no Thermopylae to defend"). Himself a fighter pilot in World War II, Gerd Gaiser puts a peculiar mystique about Hitler in the mouth of one of his characters: "God has sent him to us and he has come to corrupt us. I understand that and yet I don't." More easily understandable are onetime Painter Gaiser's word pictures of a flyer's lonely communion with sun, sky and sea, which at their best might have been mixed on the palette of the late mystically minded poet...
...have suffered enough from those Catholics in name who have exploited the field of political service for their own profit and advantage," says Roman Catholic Bishop John King Mussio of Steubenville, Ohio, in the current issue of the Catholic weekly, The Ave Maria. The corrupt Catholic politician, he continued, "is neither Catholic nor a politician. Speaking bluntly, he is a cheap crook who uses the faith as another gimmick to help get him into the lush field of easy pickings...
...four years in power, the military junta of 38-year-old Lieut. Colonel Nasser could boast of considerable progress. It had overthrown a corrupt monarch, broken a sordid feudal aristocracy's long-held power over Egypt's politics, disowned the murderous fanaticism of the Moslem Brotherhood and driven British troops from Egyptian soil after 74 years of occupation. It had imposed some stability. It had done less well in grappling with the ancient miseries of one of the world's poorest countries. By making his deal for Communist arms, Nasser had ended Egypt's dependence...