Word: sordidness
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...conspirators out to get him. Then he turned about with astounding suddenness to concede his guilt in one crime and to bargain for leniency. Pleading nolo contendere to a charge of income tax evasion in return for his freedom, he also avoided the ordeal of standing trial for a sordid series of more odious acts. As detailed in a rare disclosure of evidence by the Justice Department-evidence he still denies- he was accused of repeatedly soliciting bribes and accepting cash kickbacks for influencing the award of Government contracts, even while serving as Vice President...
...Maryland political scene was described as a sordid hothouse of corruption in which the payoff system had been well established long before Agnew's emergence as a promising officeholder. At the time of his election as Baltimore county executive (1962), "it was well known in the business community that engineers generally, and the smaller engineering firms in particular, had to pay in order to obtain contracts from the county." State contractors shaken down during Agnew's term as Governor "were not surprised that payments would be necessary because it was generally understood that engineers had been making such...
...assorted characters in the sordid Watergate cast, Charles Colson was widely viewed in Washington as the wiliest, the slickest operator and thus the least likely to be charged with a crime. So quick to deny any personal wrongdoing, so voluble in defending the innocence of the President, Colson often seemed to be protesting too much. Federal prosecutors apparently thought so too. TIME has learned that the former White House special counsel not only may be among the first former officials to be indicted by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's grand jury but that he is under investigation...
...Bazelon's views are shared by Judge J. Skelly Wright, 62, a courtly Southern gentleman who can be both tough and emotional in his opinions. Dissenting from the majority opinion favoring the Government in the 1971 Pentagon-papers case, for instance, Wright wrote: "As if the long and sordid war in Southeast Asia had not already done enough harm to our people, it now is used to cut out the heart of our free institutions and system of government...
...Spokesman Mark Grantham. "When we're alleging all over the world that they're acting in a rather crude way, it embarrasses them. It hurts for their ambassador at the U.N., who is there to make an impressive speech against world hunger, to be asked about a sordid case of torture...