Word: venalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grab & Run. An ardently anti-Communist American lawyer in Shanghai remarked to me the other night: "The Gov ernment is not a government. It is a dirty, venal lot of officials trying to get what they can while the getting is good. They have lost their confidence...
...expression is assured. The M.R.P. tried to strengthen this with a specific guarantee of freedom of the press (not contained in the Third Republic's Constitution of 1875). But the Communists and Socialists refused, ostensibly to prevent the re-emergence of the Third Republic's notoriously venal newspapers...
...thought he had a chance to win: ("Nothing will make me desert, even to the ultimate sacrifice if necessary.") He was counting heavily on public reaction against the corruption of officials in power, on a growing wave of popular resentment against the fantastic mordida (bite) that Mexico's venal politicos were taking from a thousand-and-one large and petty rackets, from milk distribution to street paving...
...whose name had become a word for venal treachery faced nine judges (five of them laymen) in an old Oslo lodge hall. There was no shred of dignity in his defense, only a trace of defiance in his demeanor. He sat lumpily in the prisoner's box, his reddish, thinning hair unkempt, his neck shrunken in an oversize collar, his blue eyes beady in a suet face...
...language problem; . . . where he must rely on interpreters, he should always keep in mind that these fellows are more exposed to bribery and corruption than anyone else employed in this kind of administration. The interpreter is a figure as important in military and internal administration, and often as venal, as the dragoman in the days of the old Turk in Constantinople...