Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of his effort would be directed toward shoring up the home front. To trim down the government's $180 million budget deficit, he promised a reduction in spending and a drive to reduce graft in the revenue service so that the Treasury would collect at least some of the estimated $350 million a year in duties that it now loses to smugglers. Burying the bombas, Marcos called on politicians to forget the recent bitter past and cooperate for the tasks ahead. "My intention," he declared, "is to harness all available talents and perhaps to appoint to the Cabinet...
...Institutional Act, Brazil's revolutionary gov ernment pressed relentlessly ahead in its war against Communism, corruption and all the other things it finds wrong with Brazil. In Rio, rumors flew that recently returned ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, still sick abed after two weeks of military questioning about his graft-riddled 1956-61 regime, would soon be heading back to exile. In Sao Paulo, erratic ex-President Janio Quadros was called before a military tribunal amid stories that he and scores of others were going to jail for corruption during his wild seven-month regime in 1961. The public...
...jumped forward") was written by Poet-President Leopold Senghor, Jamaica's by the Minister of Industry, the Ivory Coast's by its Information Minister. Malaysia expropriated an Indonesian love song called Moonlight, changed the words, then banned the original version. Kenya's solution was to graft the hymnlike words of one proposed anthem ("O God of all creation/Bless this our land and nation") onto the music of a Pokomo tribal lullaby...
...substantial popular support in spite-or because-of all its tough efforts to root out Communism and corruption. The big winner was the P.S.D. Party of Kubitschek, who from 1956 to 1961 gave the country a strong surge of development accompanied by dizzying inflation, economic upheaval and graft...
...Newman and assistant surgeons cut out the clot-plugged section of aorta and replaced it with a Dacron graft. Now Gormley's feet and legs are no longer cold. His blood pressure is down to a healthy 130/80, and last week he was recuperating in Ogden, Utah, taking short walks to rebuild his strength. The man who should have been dead had made medical history. His is the first known case in which such generous collateral circulation compensated for a complete shutdown in the aorta...