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Word: corrupts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people's votes would be dictated by questionable labor leaders and a politician of the puny stature of Harry Truman. I have about concluded that Americans are not using their heads in this election as clearly as the people in Egypt, who are wholeheartedly uniting to throw out corrupt government. What is the matter with us when we don't . . . read the telltale signs of national decline in the deflated dollar, crooked government, and a "something for nothing" philosophy . . .? Mr. Stevenson is a clever man . . . but I am convinced the present situation of our country will overpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another . . . Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers . . . Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words of the Week | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...superior, though, about Stevenson's program, the same program, it appears, that lost is China? We say "it appears" because the GOP assumes the very point of contention by asserting that America could have altered events in the Chinese civil war. The disintegration of Chiang's battered army, corrupt and ill-led as it was, was preventable only by an outlay of American manpower and purchasing power which the American public at that time raucously refused to yield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asia | 10/30/1952 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Egypt's two strong men swore mighty oaths. Mustafa el Nahas, the old (75) pro, five times Prime Minister, since 1927 chief of the powerful and corrupt Wafd Party, vowed: "No power after God can force me from this position except the people." General Mohammed Naguib, the new Prime Minister, proclaimed a law requiring Egypt's political parties to purge themselves of corrupt leaders, and vowed: "The law is sacred, and will be applied to Mustafa el Nahas as to anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: When Vows Meet | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...State Senate from the district in which Harvard is located, Copley Amory, Jr. The Democratic incumbent, Daniel O'Brien, has made himself the leader of the forces which have been seeking to destroy good local government in the City of Cambridge and to return to the old, corrupt ways which prevailed before the reforms made a decade age. Even if you were supporting a Democratic state administration, you should make an exception to oppose Danny O'Brien. Robert Braucher Professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOGIC | 10/16/1952 | See Source »

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