Word: graftings
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...York, a city of extremes, is characteristically the home of the most virulent form of this latest and most irritating petty graft, the car-watching racket...
...election day Erie County's 179,000 citizens elected him by a bare majority of 303 votes, trailing his ticket. He did a good job as sheriff. He cleaned out graft in the dissolute county jail and made himself unpopular with local politicians, but misfortune lay in store...
...concubines, was eventually assassinated when he returned to Shantung seeking further loot. Since 1930 exemplary General Han has built 4,000 miles of motor roads in Shantung, set running 400 buses, installed a provincial telephone system at a cost so low as to suggest there was no graft, and put taxes on a reasonable basis. He maintains a private army of 70,000 and wherever he goes in Shantung deals out justice, sitting as judge and jury, then seizing a heavy whip and personally executing his own flogging sentences which have a local reputation for being fair...
...duty of originating city projects requiring capital investments, 4) unifying under a Department of Housing the regulation of building operations formerly divided among building commissioners of five boroughs, 5) fiscal requirements that would put the city gradually on a pay-as-you-go basis, reduce debt charges and eliminate graft at the expense of property, owners against whom assessments are made for improvements. The New York Merchants' Association, the Citizens' Union, the Community Councils of New York along with Fusion Mayor LaGuardia and civitarians generally gave the new chapter vigorous support. Bitterly Tammany assailed it and redoubled...
...roundabout circulation in a man's heart by putting some pulverized beef bone in the pericardial cavity. This irritated the pericardium, caused it to cleave to the heart muscle. The blood vessels, which are numerous in the peri cardium, then sent branches into the heart, thus making a graft of the pectoral muscle unnecessary...