Word: perverting
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...courses now offered do indeed do this, and can continue to do so, there will be no problem. But the Departments exert a constant pull toward the morass of specialist orientation, and if they pull hard enough, they will so pervert the program as to make it not only unrecognizable, but ineffective...
...summit projects were just as unenthusiastically received by his colleagues. As one of his chief ploys, De Gaulle planned to challenge Khrushchev to cooperate with the West in a joint program of economic aid to underdeveloped nations. Both the U.S. and Britain feel that this would pervert and weaken Western aid programs. And De Gaulle's dream of a ban on arms shipments to such troubled areas as Africa is frowned on by the U.S., which argues that proud new nations will insist on getting defensive armaments somewhere-and it might as well be from the West...
...days the execution of Kidnaper-Author Caryl Chessman last month (TIME, Feb. 29), Brown was asking the legislature to reconsider the state's death penalty-and, in so doing, to give him inferentially some guidance on how to dispose of the keen-minded kidnaper-sex pervert who had managed to delay his execution for 11½ years...
...enthusiastic detail. When a girl staffer at the Beacon shot herself, the Eagle tried to associate a Levand with the case. A rumor that a Murdock relative was homosexual caused the Beacon to campaign for an ordinance to require the registration and fingerprinting of every pervert in town. So deep is the feud that it extends to the personal relationships of Eagle and Beacon staffers, and for that reason Wichita has no press club...
...alone in these reflections, however, for when Sebbie returned, his upper lip painted in the moustache left by an orange drink, some of the girlish smiles above him turned to frowns and giggles. There dawned the uneasy suspicion in Vag that he was being marked as a pervert...