Word: crookes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Myers with the rest of the Democratic machine in the 1978 race. But even then, Glancey recalls, "We always knew he wasn't Congressional caliber--I guess we just hoped he'd rise to the level of the office. We had no inkling he'd be a flat-out crook." He says Myers approached the Democratic leadership for support even after his conviction, but described his assertion that political leaders should not dictate their wishes to the electorate as "as obtuse as his defense in the criminal matter...
...have Nixon to kick around any more . . . I'm not a crook ... I want you all to stonewall...
...verbally or, in a few cases, stripped him of seniority and committee chairmanships. This fraternal forbearance stemmed partly from the Representatives' clubby regard for one another and partly from their belief that in a democracy, voters have the right to be represented by whomever they wish-even a crook. The era of tolerance apparently ended last week...
...runs an industrial service, which actually means spying, strikebreaking and union busting, and Bennett has been having more than a spot of trouble with the workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. The two sides make a business agreement, and the head crook generously gives his moll Clara to Bennett to sweeten the bargain...
...Mark K. Crook, a third-year law student who will work in government next fall after spending a summer in a big corporate firm and "hating it," said the placement process "takes up much too much time," and disrupts the fall terms of the second and third years