Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...march demonstrated that people want "to put an end to the dictatorial, authoritarian and corrupt regime," a key opposition leader said. He added it was "the best evidence that force cannot stop this national movement...
...would, in short, be a damned shame and an insult were Nixon to speak here come next spring. Although we have strongly disagreed with his political views for as long as he has been around, this is not a matter of politics. Nixon represents everything that is morally corrupt about America; to allow him the national attention a Harvard appearance would create serves only to uphold those values...
...market for De Chiricos became hopelessly snarled in disputes over authenticity, between fake De Chiricos painted by others, the copies he painted himself, and the real pre-1920 canvases. He took a sardonic relish in that. It was his revenge on an art world that he regarded as corrupt from first to last. Nevertheless, nothing would stop him from painting. He was, at the last, a model of misapplied industry. But the young De Chirico was a master, as the old maestro was not. Every square or colonnade in the world now looks different because...
...That do corrupt my air, I banish...
...There is the Ed Brooke who waffled on the Panama Canal Treaties and who favors a moratorium on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Finally, there is the Ed Brooke whose own personal finances are characterized by improprieties if not illegalities; and who has sponsored such incompetent (if not blatantly corrupt) men as former Federal District Judge Willie Davis, former U.S. Atty. James N. Gabriel and former GSA regional chief Albert Gammal for public office...