Word: crookedness
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When the votes were counted, the results proved a moderately encouraging victory for moderation. Of the 233 House of Representatives seats at issue, well over a two-thirds majority were won by the Democratic Party of former Vice President John M. Chang, whose defeat in a crooked election last March...
As he pondered Fidel, Che also pondered the objectives of the revolution he was fighting. Out of his own catch-as-catch-can Marxist reading, Che proceeded to map out Cuba's first true, peasant-based social revolution. He plotted total destruction of the old political and economic system...
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Such indifference is nothing new. Though the law limits Hogan to prosecuting offenses committed in the past two years, he believes that crooked thesis-writing and exam-taking has flourished for at least two decades. Nor is it limited to New York. "It is fair to conclude," says Hogan, "that...
Tensely real, tensely heroic, Casablanca is a movie made without cynicism. It spins a story and a mood so involved and so real that on the way home, Mount Auburn Street looks cold and crooked and there is the suspicion that back of Cronin's, Bogie is smoking another cigarette...