Word: graftings
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...Washington Oklahoma's Senator Gore chimed in: "Out in Arizona they have a petrified forest. It might be a good idea to graft some of them onto the saplings...
...Graft is as old as mankind. Cervantes, suspected of falsifying his accounts, went to jail again. Three months later his innocence was established and he was released. Six years later he was jailed once more for the same reason. This time he turned his enforced leisure to good account, wrote two stories. Fourth and last time Cervantes saw the inside of a prison was for suspected complicity in a murder; again he was acquitted. Though this uncertain freedom gave Cervantes a liberal education in human nature it did not encourage him in regular habits. "All his work was in disorder...
...among the five commissioners who will boss exchanges and administer the Securities Act-a man who could temper the New Deal's belief that all boomtime deals were deliberate snares for the public, that all speculation was evil, that all stock profits were graft, that all "money changers" belonged rightly in Hell...
...financed by the vested property interests of business, then in the end business becomes government." Taking his tip from the late great Thorstein Veblen's Absentee Ownership (1923), Rorty analyzes the growth and present state of advertising, finds it has established a U. S. pseudoculture, has attempted to graft its salesman's values on the old U. S. tradition. He thinks the U. S. "tends increasingly to speak, think, feel in terms...
...reduce by half the amount of available alcohol now on the market. Without any further provision to replace the supply thus destroyed, this procedure can only have the result of skyrocketing the legal price of liquor to astronomical figures, with consequent further inducement to bootlegging and its concomitants of graft and racketeering...