Word: venal
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...English spiv who feeds both true and false information to the British embassy for the price of his food and rent, a degraded homosexual German who is in the double employ of the palace clique and the free officers' group. Everywhere, too, are agents of the Wafd, the venal party of the land-owning beys and pashas...
...lawyer's statement to the jury, Paul Hughes, 35, is "base, venal, greedy" and "a louse," who admitted taking money for his fake evidence of crimes by Senator Joe McCarthy and his investigators (TIME, Jan. 30). In all, Hughes collected $10,800 from Joseph L. Rauh Jr., chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, and Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Democratic Digest, who testified that Hughes had fooled them roundly. But last week Hughes was acquitted in his Manhattan trial for perjury...
Impatiently, he insists that his own moral standards apply to his government, and he reacts with feeling to suggestions that this is a hopeless wish. "All right," says Nasser impatiently, "they are corrupt; they are dishonest; they are venal. But they will be incorrupt and they will be honest...
...raised $300,000 (a multiple of the 30 pieces of silver, and thus a big symbol). Then he is asked to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, whose chairman may be assumed to be Pontius Pilate. Hollywood is the fleshpots of imperial Rome. Villainous lawyers and venal politicians ("For a thousand dollars you can buy a Senator") gnash their teeth in the wings, and of course Judas Crane lets his old party pal have it (after a Last Supper at Sardi...
...Communism's 37 years in power in Russia, leaders have fallen from power in dramatically diverse ways. Some cringingly confessed to being jackals, venal hirelings in the pay of the capitalist enemy. Some went silently to the cellar. Some, like Molotov in his days as Premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. Some, like the devoted Communists in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, confessed to others' errors as their last proof of loyalty to the system, and hoped that after their deaths Communist history would thank them for their sacrifice...