Word: corrupts
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...Senators want to learn about American crime, they should do so, but they should not corrupt the Senate's legitimate powers of investigation, as they have done with Valachi performance...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Howard Da Silva and Chester Morris guest-star in this episode about a corrupt judge...
Peabody charged that "Boston newspapers that become accustomed to reporting all the evil in the state but never the good," had contributed greatly to "Massachusetts' reputation as a corrupt state...
...scars. A military strongman who gained dictatorial control of his country in 1948, P.J. poured Venezuela's rich oil royalties into an array of public works that made Caracas the most impressively prosperous-looking national capital in Latin America. But behind the building-boom facade, he operated a corrupt police state, with lush graft for insiders and imprisonment and torture for opponents. In P.J.'s torture chambers, prisoners were slashed with razors, burned with cigarettes, forced to sit for hours on blocks of ice. Some prisoners were force-fed harsh laxatives, and then, in a chamber of horrors...
...fire and brimstone. In Ward's Britain, vice tends to be half-hidden by respectability-and only half-condemned. There is a relative lack of moral indignation in many quarters, including Profumo's own constituency (see following story). The Labor Opposition, though it has muttered about the corrupt aristocracy and the twilight of a class-and exploded the Profumo scandal in the first place-has put far more stress on the practical issue of the British security system...