Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign manager, David Ingalls, was, as well as another man high in the Taft organization, Carroll Reece. These men and the Texas Taftmen will of course be in Taft's favor in the event of his nomination and election. All the time we hear Taft harping on Democratic corruption, and yet by their actions, the Taft organization promises to give us the same type of self-perpetuating corrupt practices...
That come to Colombia to corrupt...
With a plate of food You corrupt the hungry ones...
...THEIR MINISTRIES. HE HAS CONFUSED AUTHORITY WITH REGIMENTATION, AND RELIGIOUS CERTAINTY WITH ECCLESIASTICAL COERCION. NOTHING WOULD SIMPLIFY THE TASK OF THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AS MUCH AS A GRANT OF THE KIND OF AUTHORITARIANISM MR. KERNAN SEEMS TO SEEK. FEW THINGS WOULD SO EFFECTIVELY OBSCURE AND CORRUPT THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH AS THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS IT . . . THE THING THAT MAKES THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH A FAITHFUL WITNESS TO THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ITS AUDACIOUS BUT NECESSARY ATTEMPT TO HOLD FREEDOM AND ORDER IN BALANCE . . . THE EFFORT SOMETIMES FAILS, ISSUING IN AGONIZING PERIODS...
...reformer with imposing forensic powers, and the bottomless, concentrated piety of St. John of the Cross. He came to the Dominican monastery of San Marco at a time when Florence lay wrapped in the captive luxury of the Medici tyranny. The church and the papacy were sadly corrupt, suffering from the rule, successively, of two immoral Popes. Innocent VIII and Alexander...