Word: perverter
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...DEFENSE DEPARTMENT. The Defense Department civil servants who, more permanent in the Pentagon than either politically appointed Secretaries or rotated military career officers, pervert the decision-making machinery. Though he does not name Defense Comptroller Wilfred J. McNeil, Gavin bombs the fiscal officer in the Pentagon who often rejects projects without understanding of military needs...
...whose fight for honor gave aid and comfort to the Japanese. In Not the Glory, it was a German spy whose best efforts aided the British. In his new novel, laid in a sleepy Provencal town among ordinary people, it is a man of law twisted by circumstance to pervert his own notion of justice...
...Communism is the greatest, most dangerous power that the church has ever faced. Mohammedanism wanted to destroy the church materially but left her her soul. Communism would pervert the soul of the church. This is because the church is the greatest obstacle in the path of materialism. There are more Communists who see in Christianity their chief enemy than Christians who see their enemy in Communism...
...this story-Kevin Chalmers-whose chichi accent is cruelly transcribed: "I'd just had about four gallons of a positively toxic firedamp called a Gibson ..." Chalmers is not only a drunk who has been kicked out of the British embassy in Washington (as was Burgess), but a pervert and a brawler. Chance, security officers, and their own folly put him and Gleave in the same boat, headed for anonymity and dishonor in the service of the Soviet...
Cleavers, Axes & Therapy. At 9:45 one morning, four prisoners-two murderers, a robber and a pervert-seized a guard...