Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists look upon democracy as a bourgeois fraud. ... A preference for dictatorship infests their internal organization. . . . The Labor Party has nothing to fear from competition under democratic rules, but the same party which is a negligible opponent in open contest can be a serious menace as a fifth column working from within...
...returns for crucial Buenos Aires province (88 of the 376 electoral votes) were postponed till six small precincts, whose votes had been thrown out for possible fraud, could reballot next Sunday. Though Perón led, the tardy 88 votes could conceivably swing the balance back to Democratic Opponent Tamborini...
Congressman James Michael Curley had scarcely resumed his job as mayor of Boston-after drawing a six to 18 months' prison sentence for mail fraud-before he ran into yet another embarrassment. Free on bail pending appeal, the mayor had been given a brass-band welcome by devoted Bostonians; then somebody chose to bellyache about a new constable he had just appointed: Frank J. Moriarty, alias "Turkey" Joyce, oldtime housebreaker and off-&-on jailbird. Careworn Statesman Curley sighed, bowed to the popular will, booted out Moriarty...
What manner of man was this, who could convince people that his will was God's, even in the most mundane matters, even when it flew in the face of a frontier civilization's deep-dyed Puritan morality? Was he shameless fraud or true prophet? In Mrs. Brodie's well-documented version, he held something of both...
What is to the point, however, is that the student will be wrong. Faure's music has an individuality of communication, an absence of pompous hokum and fraud which makes it highly valuable in these and days. It is wholly charming and completely sincere...