Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed to mention one of the more glaring reasons the Mob can operate with impunity-and that is that there are too many corrupt officials on the take. They are willing to turn their heads away as long as enough money sticks to their fingers...
...bestow honor and publicity upon a man who betrayed us and disgraced us before the entire world, a man who probably headed the most corrupt Administration the U.S. has ever...
...Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and the Grand Moff Tarkin-probably the nastiest pair of villains in the thousand worlds. What, they want to know, has she done with the stolen secret plans of the Death Star? If those computerized blueprints reach her rebel friends, the corrupt Empire might fall-and freedom be restored to the galaxy...
...case forcefully, noting that none of the major Catholic schools had parietals anymore, that even Holy Cross had surrendered to co-education, that early-morning chapel had gone the way of all flesh, even at Fordham. In short, all of Ignatius's arguments were bogus--Harvard could not possibly corrupt me any more than the purest citadel of religious learning. Fulton Sheen would have been proud...
After weeks of digging, our correspondents developed some new perceptions of the Mafia. Says Tompkins: "The morality of the Mob is somewhat closer to the morality of the average American citizen than it used to be. The Mafiosi always said they were no more corrupt than anyone else, and today more and more people might agree." Barrett notes some disturbing reasons for the Mafia's increasing success: "The public is a willing victim of organized crime-buying black-market cigarettes and participating in illegal gambling. It's also difficult for people to think of some racketeer-who lives...