Word: venal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Everett Dirksen, these were outlandish ideas. "I should not like to be around to enjoy the furor," said Dirksen, "if the Vice President undertook, for venal purposes or motivations of his own, to pursue that kind of course . . . The people of this country will have something to say about that. They would not exactly run him out on a rail, but his whole political future, such as it might be, would come to an end at that point." In the end, the amendment's critics failed to get any changes in the language agreed to by the House...
...criticism of Saigon's venal, indolent bureaucracy by halving government salaries (Ky's $13,200 included), eliminating officials' fringe benefits, such as housing allowances, and decreeing that any public employee caught stealing more than 1,000 piasters ($15) would face a firing squad...
...Venal Men. Thus Carlos Fuentes, an able and eloquent novelist, though not a subtle one, passionately expounds the dominant Marxist line: the failure of the Mexican Revolution to produce a socialist Utopia must be laid to venal men who betrayed it to capitalist thieves and their attendant priests and police...
...down the rebellion that Laertes leads to the palace and lectures him like a boy, and the depth of Ophelia's passion at her father's death shows up his foolishness. He stabs Hamlet not as a desperate act on the part of an honorable man, but as the venal act of a fool. The textual validity of the interpretation is somewhat questionable; Hamlet, after all, thinks of Laertes as a "very noble youth." Callum, however, makes a consistent and plausible character...
...dialogue as it occurred. In my presentation, I quoted Alex Comfort's two commandments; "Do not exploit another's feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions, for the most trivial or venal reasons, or mere convenience; they out themselves off from big experience. Dr. Blaine then chose as his principle theme the "tragedy" of the unwed pregnant girl. A student then protested that if Dr. Blaine thought that this was such an ultimate evil, why didn't the University clinic provide contraceptives...