Word: grafter
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...Inspired by his fellow batsmen, Justin Langer transformed from a grafter into an opener who scored as freely as his bludgeoning partner Matthew Hayden. When selectors ended Healy's Test career in 1999, Australians lost a record-breaking wicketkeeper who more than occasionally saved his side with his bat. His replacement, Adam Gilchrist, proved to be an improvement on greatness?an almost equally accomplished gloveman who became, if not his country's finest batsman, certainly its cleanest and most dashing hitter. Of all examples of Australian extravagance this past decade, none has been more demoralizing for opponents than the sight...
...Vice President who had piously proclaimed the need for stiff morality and stern judges was revealed as a grafter; he abruptly resigned in deserved disgrace, copping a plea to stay out of jail. Within 56 hours the President nominated House Republican Leader Gerald Ford to replace Spiro T. Agnew. In choosing the amiable House workhorse, Nixon for once did the easy and popular thing...
...five wives in high style, with a goat killed every week, and lashings of palm wine to wash down the yams. But times change. The white man has gone, and Odili must emerge with his emergent nation and attach himself to black power in the person of a cynical grafter named Chief Nanga. So begins a comedy of Freedom...
...genial grafter, long a strategic, if not an integral part of Massachusetts politics, has come in for an unprecedented amount of New England fire in recent months. Recent Boston newspaper headlines have fully advertised the frequency of corruption in high (and low) places. Even as Rudolph G. Bessette, director of the state Waterways Division, stood trial this week for alleged "sweetheart deals," scandals in two areas came to light. Yesterday the Boston Finance Commission began investigation of charges that there were rigged bids in a proposed $400,000 purchase of new fire engines. At the same time, the BFC also...
Harvest. By the time Khrushchev announced his new agricultural program last month, Lysenko was reaping a sweet political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked...