Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose to speak, the chamber fell deathly silent. Israel would not consider itself on the defensive in the debate, Herzog began. "I am in no way sitting in the dock as the accused party," he said. Instead, he continued, "I stand here as an accuser [of] this rotten, corrupt, brutal, cynical, bloodthirsty monster of international terrorism and all those who support it in one way or the other, whether by commission or omission." The nations that should be on trial, he said, were those "who have collaborated with the terrorists and who have aided and abetted them." Israel was "proud...
...spillways. But first he had to penetrate Pittston's "corporate veil," to prove that the Buffalo Mining Company, a West Virginia corporation, was in fact a subsidiary of Pittston, a New York firm. In this manner, Stern was able to get the case into federal court instead of the corrupt Logan County courts where the full pressure of the coal company could be brought to bear. One of his biggest obstacles was winning the trust of those he prepresented--always suspicious and with no reason to trust a Jew from the big city. He knew he had won their trust...
...loyalties from king to republic, from democracy to dictatorship, and still love one's country. In the U.S. loyalty must be to the institutions themselves. At the same time this explains the extraordinary degree of American unease, selfcriticism, dissatisfaction with leadership. If Congress functions badly, if politicians are corrupt, if Presidents do not inspire, this is seen as a breakdown of the whole American enterprise...
Opposition newspapers, whose circulation has increased because of war news, are equally sharp. The St. James's Chronicle (circ. 2,000) calls the North ministry the most "obstinately cruel and diabolically wicked" ever to inhabit the earth. The Kentish Gazette daringly writes of the "corrupt influence of the Crown"-the King is traditionally immune from such criticism-and says that "our brave American fellow-subjects are not yet corrupted, but gloriously stand up in defense of their undoubted rights and liberties." In a pamphlet that has sold 60,000 copies, an almost unheard-of number, Dr. Richard Price...
After Frederick's death, George's mother, the domineering Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, took on the full responsibility for his upbringing. She gave him her own self-righteousness and kept him away from other boys, who she felt might corrupt him. Princess Augusta was equally stern with George's four brothers. Seeing the young Duke of Gloucester in an unhappy mood one day, she sharply asked why he was so silent. "I am thinking," he told her. "Thinking, Sir! And of what?" she demanded. "I am thinking," he replied, "that if ever I have...