Word: sordidly
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...Argentina, too, paper was scarce. So the Government ordered paper firms to turn over 600 tons of it to three papers supporting Strong Man Perón's presidential campaign. With neat timing the U.S. Embassy let out some damning documents about the sordid pasts of the three papers. They, or key members of their staffs, had taken German bribe money in 1942-43, as photostatic copies of 13 top-secret Nazi documents proved...
...Council and protege of Mayor LaGuardia (who is a member of the American Labor Party). No Deal Candidate Morris said that he was actually a Willkie Republican. He is also a Yaleman, socialite and good-government career man, who told the voters that his rivals had reached eminence through sordid political deals. Yet his opponents accused him of making a deal with LaGuardia-perhaps for such a sordid purpose as taking votes from Judge Goldstein...
...German family is repeatedly referred to by the Soviet makers of this film as an average German family. Their sordidness and guilt, by strong inference, illustrates the sordidness and guilt of all Germans. Far from unauthentic, they are passionately ferocious caricatures of the globally ubiquitous petty bourgeois at his worst-a worst already recorded by such masters as Flaubert. Their sordid motives and moral density probably reached an all-time low in the world Adolf Hitler gave them to live in-a world which both encouraged and required the type. In spite of his zeal, Author-Director Mikhail Romm...
...indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. By resisting his temptation in this instance [i.e., by not occupying Eire when the German invasion threatened], Mr. Churchill, instead of adding another sordid chapter to the already bloodstained record of the relations between England and this country, has advanced the cause of international morality an important step...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has turned up on the screen quite cleaned up and edited, but the sordid spirit and the pat honesty are still very much in evidence. If the story is inclined to bore the avid action fan with its straightforward excess of emotion, then the indictment probably spares Hollywood and goes back to Betty Smith...