Word: venal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widespread gambling in the county, Special Prosecutor Nelson Stamler launched a probe that resulted in indictments against 77 people, including two police chiefs. To nobody's surprise, Stamler soon was replaced. One reason the reform efforts failed may well be that local political bosses, many of them thoroughly venal, enjoy virtual veto power over the appointment of county judges and prosecutors...
...neon-lit, freon-cooled sand castles of The Strip rise amid the cacti and creosote bushes, massive monuments to hedonism. Inside their carpeted, clockless confines, nothing seems real: time stands still, and $100 is just a black gambling chip. This Las Vegas is a jet-age Sodom, a venal demimonde in which the greatest compliment that can be paid a man is to say that he has "juice" (influence in the right places). The city is the ultimate affront to taste...
...newspaper, Defender, served as director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in New York, and taught English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department in 1955. He has taken outspoken stands on such diverse issues as all-digit telephone dialing (against), advertising ("venal poetry") and the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley (against). In a comment that clearly foretold his attitude toward dissenters at S.F. State, Hayakawa castigated Berkeley's promoters of Free Speech. They defy authority, he complained, "yet when punitive action is threatened they holler for amnesty. They want...
...junta had raised taxes and import duties, closed down inefficient state plantations, fired the most venal politicians and turned the economy over to professional administrators. His policies brought considerable unemployment...
Along with 100-odd unknowns, John Kenneth Galbraith and Drew Pearson will publish their first novels; Galbraith's will deal with State Department misadventures in South America, Pearson's, naturally, with a venal U.S. Senator. The new Morris West is about the buildup of the Six Day War in Israel. Following the fashion of pointless pen names, Kingsley Amis calls himself Robert Markham as he takes over the James Bond industry with a suitably unlikely yarn about a convention of Iron Curtain bosses in Greece. Arthur Hailey seems to be starting a literary business too, by following...