Word: subverter
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Irishmen, my high school French teacher used to tell me, are a lot like politicians--they're no good unless they're behind bars. Now, Brother Jacques had no great love for the Gaelic race (he was convinced St. Patrick's Day is a socialist scheme to subvert American youth), but he had a good point. If you're going to spend your life, or even the better part of a Saturday night, trying to keep your balance atop a barstool, there's nothing like a pugnosed barkeep with a brogue to keep you company. It may be hereditary...
...operatives, including an estimated one third of the personnel of the South Korean embassy in Washington. We have only lately been told, though our government has known it since 1973, that large sums of money are distributed by Korean operatives in this country to subvert and bribe members of Congress (New York Times...
...crucial area Fraser might well subvert Reuther's legacy. In 1968 Reuther paraded his union out of the AFL-CIO, charging that the federation had become too conservative. Now the U.A.W. is tiptoeing toward reaffiliation. There are major stumbling blocks-the biggest is just how much autonomy the auto union could retain-but Fraser might conceivably preside over a reconciliation. If that happens, he could some day become a formidable contender...
...Groups like the VFW and the American Legion, who are adamantly opposed to any form of amnesty, will probably protest even if Carter proclaims only a partial amnesty or "pardon." But a limited amnesty would generate protests indefinitely among the excluded victims of the Vietnam tragedy. It would certainly subvert any goal of reconciliation...
...conclusions one is forced to reach are rather frightening. Not only did an American president order CIA covert activities in other countries and preside over the organized subversion of the American political system, but he sanctioned the continuing efforts of a foreign government to subvert that system for the sake of a cruel and misguided foreign policy. Given the evidence of Watergate, it is unlikely that Nixon was too gravely disturbed by the evidence of South Korean subversion, even if the object of the activities was the United States government. It is all too easy to conjure the nightmare...