Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians. Trained to the simple life (he doesn't drink or smoke, and has never succumbed to the Filipino weakness for gambling), he picked out a modest, one-story cottage at the camp for himself, Luz and their three children. He combed the army for bumbling or corrupt officers, promoted the good ones, and put a revitalized force into the field, with one mission: "Kill Huks...
...what the NBC offers Boston far outweighs its drawbacks. It has combined shrewd politics with idealistic plans to present the Boston voter for the first time in many a year an alternative to the corrupt and wasteful regime which has monopolized the city for so long. Growing out of the decaying remains of Boston's myriad sterile reformer groups, the New Boston Committee has renewed Bostonians' facing hopes in the efficacy of a popular movement for good government...
...brazenly, if he could not match deeds with words? One possibility was that, watching Mossadeq's success, he too expected the British lion to roll over and play dead. A likelier explanation was that he badly needed a diversion at home, where there was much talk of corrupt government. King Farouk had returned from his honeymoon distressed by the reports. Recently when 400 acres of land near Alexandria were sold to the poor at bargain prices, the lists proved that among the "poor" new owners were relatives of Nahas Pasha's wife-her sister, her twelve-year...
...Plan E in Cambridge proved a startling success. Cambridge government was no different from Lowell's or Waltham's. It was contented and corrupt when Plan E was adopted; its major had just gone to jail for accepting a 30 percent kickback from an architect who did city work...
Whether or not it can corrupt anyone's morals, La Ronde (Commercial Pictures) is clearly suitable for grownups and almost as certain to delight them. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen, it takes an intimate, cynical view of the mating instinct at play in a Vienna that was turning the century without a break in its giddy stride. Director Max (Letter to an Unknown Woman) Ophuls has lovingly put together this wry ode to love, and brightened it with a galaxy of Continental stars: Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Simone Simon, Gerard Philipe, Simone Signoret, Isa Miranda...