Word: graftings
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...last week, all the principals seemed to be playing the wrong roles. The judge was ranting, the hard-boiled D.A. was sobbing and a bookie was looking down his nose at both of them. This miscast scene was the unexpected end of New York's biggest police-graft trial since...
Last week the 35-year-old bookie, perfumed and wearing an expensive suit, was led into the courtroom as the star witness against the police he had bribed. When the time came to really tie the defendants to graft, the flabby dandy shook his pomaded head and said: "I won't answer any more questions...
...child, watching with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court jester and general handy man, recruits poker partners and, occasionally, pretty dancing partners; Tabet, Pulley and a half dozen similar hangers-on are generally believed to be neck-deep in graft, were implicated in the scandal of the sale of faulty arms to the Egyptian army, uncovered after the Arab-Israeli...
...towns 20 miles apart on the southernmost tip of Texas got different versions of TIME'S Aug. 20 issue. In Harlingen, 240 subscribers received a magazine in which the Press section contained stories on the Cincinnati Post's crusade against municipal graft and a sketch on the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. In nearby Raymondville, county seat of Willacy County, 70 subscribers got copies in which the Press section reported the life & death of Press Lord William RandolphHearst.*The difference represented the kind of magazine reporting made possible when the best in highspeed communication and printing equipment...
...member of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, which has elected the last two Presidents of Cuba. But in 1947 he broke with the party, was soon denouncing Autentico officeholders as crooks and plunderers on his Sunday-night radio broadcasts. Cubans listened in fascination as Chibás assailed government graft and embezzlement. But he could never make his hottest accusations stick. For Chibás, the futile search for proof has been bitterly frustrating. "People don't believe me any more," he said recently...