Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, ailing Nahas Pasha-who probably would like to see the British stay in Suez as a defensive screen against the hated Israelis-resisted his Foreign Minister's plans. But, being under attack for his government's corrupt mismanagement of Egyptian finances, he was content-as Egyptian politicians always have been-to divert attention from his own sins by denouncing Britain...
...crack at a foreign movie, had still not seen La Ronde, and could not, by bureaucratic decree. The state censors, who burned their fingers this year on Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle (TIME, Jan. 8), refused to pass La Ronde on the ground that it would tend to corrupt the morals of its audiences...
...machine found itself in need of a shining, bright-eyed new face. The reform forces of Governor Lloyd Stark were bearing down on Kansas City and threatening to put the corrupt police department under state control. Pendergast & Co. kicked out Onie Higgins (he later went to prison) and put Onie's diplomatic doorman behind Higgins' desk. Boyle was told to "clean up the town and keep it clean." Police Director Boyle followed his orders enthusiastically. In person, he raided gambling houses, broke up slot machines, closed up the red-light district, shut down saloons, and even tossed some...
...themselves when they tried to break his hold on the All-India Congress Party (TIME, July 30) and caused him to resign from the party's Working Committee (a sort of Congress Party Politburo). Giddy with what looked like victory, Party President Purushottamdas Tandon, who controls the largely corrupt Congress political machine, violently attacked and insulted Nehru. He had reckoned without Nehru's tremendous popularity with the Indian masses...
...Strongest Man? The Wafd has the most efficiently corrupt political organization in the country. At the last elections, policemen handed out ballots to the illiterate fellahin and showed them where to make their marks (in that way one cop boasted he had cast 5,000 straight votes for the Wafd). The party made numerous campaign promises of social reform, has carried out virtually none of them; the one way in which it hopes to keep its popularity and make the people forget about their discontent is to whip up anti-British feeling...