Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going had been gummy. For seven grinding days, the Senate's three-man War Investigating Subcommittee had groped through a maze of epithets, gags, evasions and contradictory testimony to determine whether Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo had shaken down war contractors for campaign money and graft...
...housecleaning as Mexico had rarely seen. He cracked down on a free-flowing traffic in narcotics, stolen autos and women, kicked grafters out of the city hall. He was the sort of independent President Alemán wanted to bring order out of the Government's inefficient, graft-ridden petroleum monopoly. Said Bermudez when he took the job three weeks ago: "I am going to put Pemex on a businesslike basis...
...emergency and wartime powers . . . take the meddling hands of political despots out of the kitchens of America, out of the farmhouses, out of the grocery stores," rescind some of "those 76,541 directives, grants, orders, permissions and prohibitions issued by the Executive Department," look into "the waste and graft," lower the taxes, and scrutinize foreign affairs for "secret executive agreements." Said Joe Martin: "We Republicans will be ready...
...gave promise of beginning a new era in student affairs. Up to that time University Hall had frowned on student attempts to participate in national organizations--not to speak of international ones. Certainly there are grave dangers attached to such participation. Professional leadership, partisan domination, and even outright graft have often corrupted the high ideals with which student organizations have been formed in the past. It is a basic weakness, resulting from the nature of student life which has time for only part-time participation in extra-mural activities...
...Graft whole limbs from newly dead to living persons...