Word: crookedness
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But what about the infamous corruption traditionally associated with unions? The authors claim that its prevalence is simply exaggerated. "There are more crooked businessmen than union members," says Freeman. Both he and Medoff, who describe themselves "in their 30s," say that the extortionate behavior of unions is isolated and overpublicized...
From the top of the dike the plain looked endless, colorless, with a few bare trees, a row of crooked telegraph poles, and half a dozen or so huts marking the view of the terrain but failing to interrupt its flatness and lack of color. The sound of a shepherd...
Three years after he was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, Russian Poet Joseph Brodsky compared the émigré writer to a creature who "survives like a fish in the sand: crawls off into the bush, and getting up on crooked legs,/ walks away (his tracks like a...
The undercover man was advised on how to establish his credentials as a crooked art dealer by two former members of Scotland Yard's art squad. The names of some suspected thieves were supplied by the late Rodolfo Siviero, who directed Italy's attempts to recover its stolen...
FOES BLAST HALL: "AS BAD AS NIXON!" Publication this fall of Peter Hall's Diaries, which chronicles his first eight years at the National (1972-80), has sent Sir Peter's old enemies scurrying to put in their tuppence worth. Playwright John Osborne denounced the book as a...