Word: graftings
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Another attraction lay in the prospects for graft and black-marketeering. But most of them, looking homeward with critical eyes, were prompted by the feeling that the U.S. was too confused a place to come back to just now. Whatever the job prospects at home, they knew they could save money in the jobs at hand, with salaries ranging from $1,704 to $5,800 a year, with all expenses paid. And those who joined UNRRA could also be sure of getting their fare home paid if they stayed for at least a year...
...always convince him," said one, "I feel good knowing that others won't be able to unsell him on the things he's sold on." Flying "anything with two seats," the Brigadeiro ranged the coast to the remotest bases, keeping a sharp eye out for graft and mismanagement...
...suggest that she try living by this rule. Be kinder to others than anybody can be to you and do it first. . . . It is my sincere hope that Mr. & Mrs. Richardson are going to be happy in this very delightful progressive city where there is more honesty and less graft than any place in America...
Almost all suffered from malnutrition. Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels. They had been beaten and kicked, forced to bow, to obey endless rules invented by their captors...
...centuries by 'practical' rulers." Allow me to protest. You have been badly misinformed. Not a single president or dictator in my country has taken advantage of his position to enrich himself. Every one of them . . . has been an honest man. Dr. Velasco Ibarra, indeed, speaks frequently about graft from his predecessors as a political trick to impress the mob. It is one of his many low political tricks...