Word: graftings
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...epidemic." Beneath the banner headlines ran the byline of the stranger at the bar: Edwin Strickland, 39, the balding bachelor reporter of the Birmingham News, who has made a career of sniffing out crime and corruption, in 1954 played a major role in exposing the blend of sex, graft and murder in Phenix City, Ala. (TIME, June...
...Graft became a significant economic hemorrhage...
...clutches of this vernal mood, we take delight in all that we see. We can no longer be moved to anger by social injustice, graft, incompetence, the Student Council, and the Republican party. We can nonchalantly ignore the need for slower reform in the History Department and faster reform in the English Department. We can eat what is put before us in the dining halls. We can be positive and pleasant...
...hostility existent in a large segment of the middle class American public towards labor unions has been heightened recently by the expose of graft in Dave Beck's Teamsters Union, and this is apparently only the beginning of a series of investigations of reported criminal activities in other unions. Corruption in the unions, as well as suspicion of Communist infiltration of union leadership, give the many supporters of management's position tangible weapons to utilize in the struggle to protect their own economic desires...
...rubble, and began to use metal instead of stone. He sketches his sculptural idea on paper before cutting up sheets of metal with shears and blowtorch, then welds the pieces together into the finished product. Over the years he has also learned to unite copper and iron, and graft brightly colored mosaics into his metal creations. An admirer of Calder's mobiles, Lardera says: "Where Calder really introduces movement, I try to give the impression of movement." His current show at Knoedler's is an exhibition of 22 welded pieces of sculpture whose geometric designs express the purely...