Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle is joined between those who would abridge the freedom of the press and those whose commitment to excellence finds this abridgement intolerable. During the last three years alone, prior restraint has been seriously and successfully used against the press; a carefully orchestrated and well-financed plan to corrupt the free flow of information between the press and the public has been conceived and implemented; major efforts to force journalists to reveal their sources have been prosecuted; and journalists have gone to jail in defense of this vital freedom...
...prove strong enough. As far back as 1907, Theodore Roosevelt suggested tax-supported campaigns; though the idea got nowhere in the U.S., roughly half of the Western industrial democracies subsequently adopted some form of public financing. For 46 years, campaign financing in the U.S. was governed by the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, but not a single member of Congress was ever punished for transgressing it. The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 sought to remedy the old law's defects by insisting on more thorough disclosure of the sources of campaign money. Another 1971 act took the first...
...member is anyone who considers himself a member. There are no required dues, and lest riches corrupt the fellowship, no one is allowed to contribute more than $300 a year. Instead of using professional therapists, the members help each other; one alcoholic is always on call to come to the aid of another. The treatment is nothing more sophisticated than the gathering together of a dozen or more other alcoholics who share their drinking histories and admit to themselves and each other that they are powerless to control their drinking. Members attend meetings as often as they feel the need...
...prince or sub-chieftan actually coveted the throne, the ritual demanded that they act as if they did. Their attacks on the king were necessary to emphasize the contrast between the sanctity of the kingship and the human failings of the king. If a particular monarch was a corrupt or cruel despot, the people would not seek to overthrow the social order, but would simply replace the king with another man, usually a member of the king's own family. The fact that the king himself might be evil would not invalidate the sacred kingship, as symbolized by the people...
...racketeer "Lucky" Luciano. When Dewey became D.A. of New York County, Hogan stayed on as his assistant, stepping up when Dewey quit in 1941. Though modest and low-keyed in public, Hogan brought to trial an impressive gallery of offenders including basketball fixers, TV quiz-show cheats and many corrupt public officials. He resigned last December because of poor health. Only the month before, he had been re-elected to an unprecedented ninth term...